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When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement.

~Melvin Van Peebles

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Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

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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.

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I didn't even know I had a legacy.

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I do what I want to do.

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

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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.'

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 21st, 1932

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