Boots Riley Quotes

• I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

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  Watches, World, Want

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• What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

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  Thinking, Media, Hands

  "Dance Dance Revolution". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2007.

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• Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

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  Pigs, Statements

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• A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

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  Thinking, Saying And Doing, Supposed To Be

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

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  Differences, That One Person, Personal Power

  "Dance Dance Revolution". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 2007.

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• Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

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  Rap, Thinking, Ideas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

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  Revolucionario

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

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  Hurt, Reality, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

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  Father, Thinking, Ideas

  "Boots Riley Is Sorry to Bother You". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2011.

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• I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

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  Needs, Done, Feels

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Quería escribir una canción sobre el sexismo, pero no quería hacerlo de forma mecánica y en plan: "¡No seas sexista!", porque no es así como hablo en la vida normal.

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  Song, Writing, Want

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions based on what looks better. Also I write based on what I saw for a video. I obsess over lyrics in the hopes that they'll endure in different ways. I'm very precious about it.

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  Writing, People, Decision

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."

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  Girl, Beach, Years

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• No tenía ni idea de hasta qué punto lo que hacía afectaba a la gente de fuera de Oakland. En aquella época, además, el hip hop no podía hacer giras porque todos esos clubes que ahora permiten la entrada del hip hop nunca lo habrían permitido.

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  Oakland, Ideas, People

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

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  Song, People, Personal Life

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• When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

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  Song, Cousin, Years

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

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  School, High School, Tables

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• La gente hace cumplidos porque es de buena educación.

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  People, Giving, Compliment

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

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  Song, Art, Taken

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

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  Canción, Escribir, Media

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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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 to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

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  Ideas, People, Trying

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

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  Ideas, Important, Musician

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• Mucha gente oyó hablar de la ginebra y el zumo por primera vez gracias a Snoop Dogg, pero no era nada nuevo en la música rap ni en la comunidad negra.

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  Rap, People, Community

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

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  Hija, Primeros, Nacidos

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

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  Thinking, Way, Chemicals

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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