Boots Riley
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Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
I'm like, this is like the jankiness of life.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
And obviously, I'm choosing what's in the frame.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
And it's heightened.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
But I want something that makes you think about that jankiness and see the seams and see see things.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
So I can say like we have and it's about textures.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
We have miniatures.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
We have stop motion.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
You know, we have all sorts of stuff.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
I don't remember saying that, but it sounds right.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
So my mother was born to a Black pre-beat poet named Lawrence Patterson and a German Jewish mother named Anita Penner.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
And she was born in the 40s.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
So just even then being mixed, it wasn't something that is as prevalent as now.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
And she got pregnant with my sister when she was 15.
Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
And kind of was left alone.