Influence
Black Orpheus was cited by Jean-Michel Basquiat as one of his early musical influences. Barack Obama notes in his memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), that it was his mother's favorite film.
The film was mentioned by the character Cliff Huxtable in the first season of The Cosby Show (Episode 10, "Bonjour Sondra", aired 22 November 1984) as the movie seen by him during early adulthood that made him desire to travel to Rio.
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“Perhaps I stand now on the eve of a new life, shall watch the sun rise and disappear behind a black cloud extending out into a grey sky cover. I shall not be deceived by its glory. If it is to be so, there is work and the influence that work brings, but not happiness. Am I strong enough to face that?”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)
“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.”
—John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)