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Steven Biko Quotes

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Steven Biko

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: south african
Birth: December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977

Topics

Alone Lie People Believe Security

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Jerry Saltz

Good People Revolution Present Bad

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.

Mattie Stepanek

Opportunity Gift Feelings Others

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Jeffrey Tambor

Loved Acting Strike Way Anything

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Srikumar Rao

Child Wise Think Parent Universe

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Stacy Keach

Nature People Human Nature You Want

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

Ron White

Humor People Laugh Find Something

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

Miguel Sapochnik

Disappointment First Obsession Big

We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.

Luis Gutierrez

Good People Stand Driving Out Clear

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

Jay-Z

Hat Famous More Made Than Yankee

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

Jason Alexander

Know Still Directing Much Movie

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

Dee Rees

Time Art Think Place Always I Think

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

William Shakespeare

Virtue Strokes Itself