“Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - t...” — Melvin Van Peebles Quote

“Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.”

“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.”

“I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.”

“Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.”

“If you had no enemies, you had no fun.”

“One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.”