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Mekhi Phifer Quotes

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1974

Topics

Man Black Escape Question Going OK

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Heart People Me Face Black Down

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

Thinking Loss New Old About

I'm from New York, so I'm simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me.

New York Pizza Me You New Will

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Civilization Relevant Idea How Shows

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Life Death Training I Am People Me

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry People Speak Language Dream

Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.

Music Woman Performance Within Very

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

Colin Greenwood

People Me Informed Playing Bass Who

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

Father Age Losing Me Important Able

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face.

Live Music People Face Interesting

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

Bruce Springsteen

Good Live Believe Make A Difference

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

Alija Izetbegovic

Freedom Socialism Regardless Repeated

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