"I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props."

-- Talib Kweli

#Honesty Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Jul 05, 2012
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
“Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror”
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.”
“I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.”
“On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.”

Source : "Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 83". en.wikiquote.org. December 10, 2003.

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