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My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
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My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
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My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
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No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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