"I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one."

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Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

#Thinking Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes #True Life Quotes

“I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.”
“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, Iâ€™d found out long ago that I couldnâ€™t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”
“Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.”
“Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.”
“I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.”
“But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.”
“To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs.”
“Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.”

Source : Fritz Leiber, Fred Gambino (1979). “Ship of Shadows”

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