"I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends."

-- Zoe Leonard

#Teenager Quotes #Lying Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.”
“I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.”
“But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
“When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'”
“Why am i here? What's my purpose?”
“Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.”
“How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again...”

Source : Song: Dance With My Father, Album: Dance with My Father, 2003
“The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.”

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