"It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to."

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Rakim

#Strong Quotes #Rap Quotes #Long Quotes

“I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.”
“It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. Itâ€™s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. Weâ€™re just out here. (p.53)”

Source : Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”
“What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--”
“You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.90, Random House
“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”
“When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.”
“New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.”
“My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!”

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