"I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out."

-- J. Cole

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“Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.”
“Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.”

Source : Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" by Dennis Hevesi, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.
“I never ever paid attention to any election.”
“That's why I was out in the streets. To make sure no one else was there.”
“When I'm running, I'm looking for contact. It's kind of weird. It brings a fire to me. When I get older I'll probably get wise and not do that.”
“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”
“It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.112, Broadway Books
“To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.”

Source : Marie-Louise Von Franz (1974). “Number and Time”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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