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Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

Maajid Nawaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: british

Topics

Change Moving Black Hip-Hop Islam

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

Joe Strummer

Art School Hopeless First Out Just

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Jodie Foster

Love Listening Movies Nothing Talk

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Socrates

Life Good Death Man Evil Good Man

I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.

Marv Levy

Walk Poetry Book Think Down Know

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

Courtney B. Vance

Education Mother Parents Museums She

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Brea Grant

Joy Writing Heroes Up Because Role

For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.

Bruno Dumont

Work Relationship People Giving You

I love Grimes.

Brie Larson

Love I Love

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Women Time Without Significant Those

Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Suriya

Confidence Freedom College Me India

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Shan Sa

Feel Long Too Much Lived I Feel Too

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter.

Thomas Mallon

Good Writing Think Way Write Out