"Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence."

-- Saul Williams

#Rap Quotes #Ghetto Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.”
“In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?”

Source : Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.195, Penguin
“Travelling expands the mind rarely.”
“I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.”
“I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.”
“Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.”
“When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.”
“I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.”

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