"My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own."

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Black Thought

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.”
“I did two or three plays every summer.”
“If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.”

Source : "Let’s Keep Girls’ Education in the Global Spotlight" by Frida Giannini, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.
“The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.”
“There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.”
“I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.”
“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.”
“So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.”

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