"I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music."

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Source : "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

Michael Rapaport

#Song Quotes #New York Quotes #Cities Quotes

“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
“Yes Iâ€™m a beast and I feast when I conquer!”
“You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men!”
“Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.”
“You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth - Abundance is your birthright.”
“For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
“Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
“If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.”

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