“I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 167 of 169
“Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.”
“The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.”
“Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.”
“If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern”
“I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.”
“The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.”
“Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.”
“I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.”
“I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.”
“All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.”
“Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.”
“She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.”
“You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation.”
“That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”
“Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.”
“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
“The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for decades and it's got the prisons filled with lots of young people who sometimes come out destroyed for having half an ounce... We should approach it through education and health issues rather than a brutal reaction... There is need for change in policy, but it has to start with debate and discussion... I think the whole approach has to be reviewed.”
“It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.”
“Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.”