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Pepa Quotes

'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 9, 1964

Topics

Me Push You Back Pop Very

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

New York New Know Guns Shoot How

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

Life Black Thinking Find Stop Write

If I see an audition for a show or a movie, I'll send a tape in. I attack it. The whole time, I'm booking comedy, so no matter what, I always got that coming in. I'm always working on my craft.

Time Comedy Matter Craft Always See

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Live Moment Culture Reading You Way

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Anna Deavere Smith

Believe America You Look Back Know

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

Direction Look Stability Businesses

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

Life Children Myself Potential Wrong

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Change People You Things Hold Going

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

Work Imagination Like Your Endings

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Conflict World Think Fighting Well

My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

Service Years Schools Dad

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Love Myself Creating Room Going

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