"I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Charlemagne Palestine

#Ghetto Quotes #Community Quotes #Musician Quotes

“For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.”
“It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.”
“Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.”
“I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.”
“This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.239
“I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.”

Source : "Walking Through Walls" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. March 8, 2010.
“If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.”

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