"Hear from those who have gone before you."

“My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?”

“The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!”

“When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.”

“I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.”

“I don't know what I'm searching for. I haven't found it. I don't have a job, and I don't have anything lined up. I don't know what I'm looking for.”

“When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.”

Source : "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.

“...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.”

“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”

Source : Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co