Boots Riley Quotes

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I've always had that feeling for the dark side, for the anger and the hate-rock. The music is just the way I deal with it.

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but a lot of our emotions end up manifesting themselves in the form of anger.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

I have a bit of a temper.

I find it really easy to be aggressive, I find it easy to cry.

Before 'AEnima,' we were just following our gut. There was a lot of anger in the air and we never tried to control that. But just as we mature as humans, with 'AEnima' we tried to be fueled more by spiritual ideas or more of a conscious mode of aiming things in the right place or trying to take more responsibility for our art.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.

I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.

Anger is so constructive.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.

I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.

My assistants will bear testimony to the fact that I am a very angry man.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.