"Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really."

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D'Angelo

#Real Quotes #Black Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'”
“(When asked what a director does) I help.”
“In politics experiments means revolutions.”
“I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.”
“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men”
“You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn”
“I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this”
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”

Source : "Elegy for Wonderland". Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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