Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and people there whose eyes were black, people whose skin was white, people whose skin was black, people whose hair was blond, people whose hair was black, from the whitest white person to the blackest black person.
It's a big world, and I really like it.
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
There are many roads to Mecca.
We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colours.
The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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