"If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris."

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Ice Cube

#New York Quotes #Rap Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”
“Divorce transforms habit into drama.”
“Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.”
“The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.”
“When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.126, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.”
“The United Kingdom Is Not A Country That Anybody Can Be Proud Of”
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press

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