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When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.'s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer.

I didn't even know I had a legacy.

I do what I want to do.

The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'

It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.

I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.

Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you.

Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it.

I intend to stay dangerous.

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made that kind of money and was that successful and taken seriously.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'

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