"You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of The Source advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world."

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KRS-One

#Country Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Rap Quotes

“We are all riding on the same bus.”
“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2009). “Because of Winn-Dixie”, p.159, Candlewick Press
“I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.”
“Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.”
“I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.”
“Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.”

Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.
“A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.”

Source : "Prison Bound". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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