"All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message."

-- Boots Riley

#Party Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes #Messages Quotes

“As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.”
“My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.”

Source : "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.
“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”
“When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.”
“If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.”
“My life is bigger than basketball.”
“Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.”
“Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2012). “Thoughtless”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

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