"Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop."

-- Bakari Kitwana

#Sex Quotes #Standards Set Quotes #America Quotes

“I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.”
“I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.”

Source : Interview with Jerry Hopkins in "Rolling Stone" Magazine No. 20, October 26, 1968.
“I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.”
“I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.”
“I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.”

Source : Diane Waddmann, Arshile Gorky (1981). “Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective”
“We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Bernard Hopkins' style is the way...everything he does is for a reason - little head feints, little hand movements, little shoulder rolls and gestures are all finer points of the sweet science. Before contemporary times everyone did that kind of stuff.”
“It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.”

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