Message Quote by Boots Riley

“The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.”

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Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

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I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture…

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The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

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What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection…

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I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people.…

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Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went…

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What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of…

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What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14…

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I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society.

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A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup.

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When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of…

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You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details…

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The main message that I'm trying to tell, through all my music or even anything, everything, is perfect love conquers all fears.

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Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

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Have God make a message out of your mess.

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The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this…

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How do you keep an idiot in suspense? Leave a message and Ill get back to you.

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Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of…

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