All Black famous quotes

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

A good man who did a bad thing.

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.