quotes about Little Bee

“Sometimes I don't tell the truth, which is telling the truth about not telling the truth. I think people don't tell the truth when they're afraid that something bad's going to happen if they tell the truth. I say things all the time that I could really get into trouble for, but they kind of blow over.”

“While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.”

“Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it's clear. Defend it to your last breath.”

“My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.”

“Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.”

“Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.”

“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.”

Source : "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

“We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.”

“Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.”

“Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?”