"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."

-- Rita Dove

#Rap Quotes #Play Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.”
“Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?”
“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.”
“Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.”
“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you.Â ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”
“Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?”
“Every time I embrace a black woman Iâ€™m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Iâ€™m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of deathâ€¦. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
“Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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