"One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility,'"

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Source : "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

Geoffrey Canada

#Ghetto Quotes #Artist Quotes #Urban Quotes

“When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.”
“Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
“I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.”
“North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.”
“In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.”

Source : Ed Naha, Roger Corman (1982). “The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget”
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”

Source : "The British System of Government". Book by Dilwyn Thomas, 1965.
“While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.”
“What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.”

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