Blaxploitation Movies Quotes & Sayings

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up. — George Bernard Shaw

A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively. — Pearl Zhu

Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested. — Terry Pratchett

I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around. — Clyde Edgerton

It is so strange to see two people you have known separately join together. — Veronica Roth

I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out. — Quentin Tarantino

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio. — Geddy Lee

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process. — Paul Rudd

To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon ... Your greatest fear. — Alex Flinn

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. — Don Cheadle

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' — Samuel L. Jackson

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it. — Bob Goff

There is no shame in failure. For a warrior the only shame is in not trying.) — Dave Grossman

An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on
me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me
shillelagh out next, wait'll you see. — Martin McDonagh

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it. — Tennessee Williams

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others. — Rafael K Nunes

Prayer is the breath of the new creature. — Richard Baxter

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God. — Ivan Lendl