"Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music."

-- Joell Ortiz

#Writing Quotes #Names Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes

“The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.”
“Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.”
“Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.”
“When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.”
“There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.”
“Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.”

Source : Anthony Hecht (2012). “Collected Earlier Poems”, p.72, Knopf
“Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.”
“The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.”

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