"The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out."

-- Talib Kweli

#Thinking Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes #Balance Quotes

“I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.”
“Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.”
“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.”
“I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.”
“A mind too active is no mind at all.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz (1966). “The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems”
“Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.”
“There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.”

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