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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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“The example of America must be the example, not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because it is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)