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Boots Riley

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401 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Is this easy?

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Right, right.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Right?

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And the next day was the first time I ever saw a color picture on the cover of the Oakland Tribune.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

It was a color picture of Presbytery with blood all over him.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Saying...

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

That students attacked Principal O'Leary on the way to, you know.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And so that was a quick lesson.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

So also, I want to put this in the context in the movie, because what you're making is a

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

great point that i think but but i what i'm setting up in the movie has to do with when i would be watching tv a lot i was like addicted to tv and my father would always be like you know why you think it's interesting why you think those people's lives are interesting and he would say because they're not watching tv because the reality for many of us

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

is we're spending so much time watching these screens.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And so for me, what we do see on these screens is a huge part of our life.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

It's a huge part of what affects us.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And so I want that representation on there, not only the interpretation from what happened in real life to what's happening on the screen, but how we are affected by all these things.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Lakeith Stanfield.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

It wasn't just the Marvel movie, to be fair, but yeah.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

I think maybe just more confidence in myself.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Like I saw with Tessa, like how we made that a space

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

very specific thing, you know what I'm saying?

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

It worked.