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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Technology Good Innovation Advent
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Theory Slayed Shot Poodles
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Ahead Desert Saharan Cross
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A hungry man is an angry one.
Angry Hungry Man
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black Britain Deal Exist
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Young Vitality Punk Rock
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Anything Punk Rock Qestioning
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Money Criminal Instead Scholar
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Angry Anger Change History
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Truth Statement Itself Anti-war
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Pushing Punk Sticking Man
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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Company Orphanage Donate Powerful
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Punk Never Know Reply
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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Shock Doctine Money Disaster
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The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Idea Type Joke Owed
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

Cage Small Inside Hard
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I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Dreams Place Still About
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Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person.

Person Love Built Respect
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
Think Person Justice Pessimistic
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Race Never Exist Choice
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.

Pick Around Come Age
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.

Own Better Gender Definition
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