"Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce"

-- Talib Kweli

#Names Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes #Deuces Quotes

“I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.”
“We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.”

Source : Song: Country Must Be Country Wide, Album: Halfway To Heaven, 2010
“It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy”
“True biblical love is a selfless commitment of oneâ€™s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.”
“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be loveâ€”a connection between things.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.197, Wave Books
“Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.”
“What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an ancient Israelite or first-century Jew read the Bible - what would they be thinking in terms of its meaning? The truth is that if we put one of those people into a small group Bible study and asked them what they thought about a given passage meant, their answer would be quite a bit different in many cases than anything the average Christian would think. They belonged to the world that produced the Bible, which is the context the Bible needs to be understood by.”
“I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.”

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