Todd Boyd Quotes (22 Quotes)

What's funny is a lot of conversation these days is about Hollywood and the effects of popular culture, but I never hear anyone mention that there are images from Iraq on television every day, ... I mean, it is violent. And yet it is almost like it is not on television. People are just real selective about what they choose to point fingers at.

I don't think a media director is sitting around saying, 'Hey, there's this black woman in Philadelphia and she disappeared and we don't care,'

It's anybody's tournament to win. Tournament play is so different from regular-season play. There are so many dynamics at work consistency, fatigue, pitching. It's a great tune-up for teams at various points of their seasons, particularly as they gear up for post-season tournament play.

A lot of it is luck. You need to play the right role at the right time.

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real' this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

Hip hop is inherently political, the language is political. It uses language as a weapon -- not a weapon to violate or not a weapon to offend, but a weapon that pushes the envelope that provokes people, makes people think.

The people we've played so far this year have been very, very tough teams. We had some aspirations of what we could do this year as far as making the playoffs, and now we're going into our league. It's just been critical breakdowns at crucial times that have hurt us and we've had a little bit of bad luck on a couple of occasions.

He's a Chicago guy, explosive to the basket. He has a certain style the way he does things. At this point, though, it's not about being the best basketball player. As great a player as Tim Duncan is, he's not going to sell any shoes. He doesn't have that persona. It's about standing above the crowd. Just being a good guy and clean-cut guy is not going to do it.

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

In order to really move a shoe, you need to get to the finals on a regular basis, or you need to be a pop culture icon, like Allen Iverson.

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

It's a case that had everything, ... There's multiple murders, there's a famous former football player who had become an actor, there are drugs, there's sex, there's violence, there's interracial marriage.

I don't think it's the same thing. Hip-hop has redefined the word. It can mean a number of things. It can be a term of admiration. It can be a term of recognition.

I think the O.J. Simpson case is the ultimate reality TV show. I think it really changed the way we think and talk about race and celebrity the way trials work now. Whenever there's a big case now, you can guarantee that it's going to be on television somewhere because of O.J.

He's a good athlete with game-changing ability, ... Sometimes we use him as a decoy. He also plays both ways all the time and has one interception for a 100-yard touchdown (in a 48-20 victory over Briggs on Sept. 2).

Any time you get good pitching and hit a little bit, it'll win the game for you.

You can't give these guys extra outs. They'll make you pay for it.

In general, there is an assumption that crime is such a part of black and Latino culture, that these things happen all the time. In many people's minds it's regarded as being commonplace and not that big a deal.

Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language because no other word incites more controversy today.

Network television is not interested in civil rights they're interested in making money. If things that will generate money are diverse in any way, so be it, but if not, they'll go in the other direction.

particular culture and, until that culture is changed, you're not going to see any drastic changes in overall representation.