"Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

#Years Quotes #Cake Quotes #Eggs Quotes

“As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.”
“So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.”
“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
“Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.”
“someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.”

Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.”
“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”
“Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?”

Source : Charles Francis Potter, Mrs Clara (Cook). Potter (1930). “Hvmanism: A New Religion”

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