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Boots Riley Quotes

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1971

Topics

Listen Everything Prince Cure Clash

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Technology People Think Buy Products

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Better Someone You Young Fighter

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Racism Slavery Financial Way Others

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'

Life Think You Now Never Okay

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

World Virtue Modesty Greatest Almost

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

Space Animals Want Messy Normal

It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

Women Men Lie Look Place Young

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

Love Music Feelings Important Touch

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Business Age Laugh Strangers Career

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

Game You Play Go New Castle

I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.

Donna McKechnie

Harmony Shy Always Dancing Terribly

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Bruce Springsteen

Father Shoes Voice You Early Go

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