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"I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction."
"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
"Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days."
"I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it."
"The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don't."
"It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award."
"There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'."
"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile."
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
"I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards."
"I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box."
"I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian."
"Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves."
"I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost."
"I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it."
"People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?"
"If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards."
"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
"Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!”"
"Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow."
