South Africa Quotes

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.
When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.
While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
Black man, you are on your own.
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.
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