The system knows how to ...

The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It\'s like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don\'t have to disappear.
The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.
 Haile Gerima

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.
 Haile Gerima
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.
 Haile Gerima
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
 Haile Gerima