“Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'”
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“I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.”
“As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.”
“It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.”
“It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.”
“...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.”
“On the foreign policy side, there's the risk of being too spontaneous and too disruptive where you end up doing more harm than damage. And figuring out that balance is where having strong people around you matters.”
“I didn't think this whole business with Director James Comey was handled well. So there are sort of day-to-day aspects of the operation that I think are really troublesome. And I know that there are a lot of people in the country who have lots of issues with decisions that Donald Trump has making on the domestic side.”
“I fired a lot of senior people myself and I think the key, when you feel compelled to remove a senior official, is essentially to have all your ducks in a row at the beginning. Have everybody understand what the rationale was.”
“I think in the policies that have been followed since the president Donald Trump came into office, there really hasn't been any slack cut for the Russians. And I think one of the things that has surprised people has been that the relationship between the United States and Russia has in fact deteriorated since the election.”
“We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.”
“If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.”
“Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.”
“I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic.”
“Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.”
“The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world”
“That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.”
“Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.”
“Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive?”
“I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.”