"The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."
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"I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival."
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"The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable."
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"We must contemplate what the meaning of being "educated" is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important."
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"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for."
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"People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing."
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"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people."
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"It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with."
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"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."
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"From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with."
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"The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals."
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"Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete."
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"We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think."
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"A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market."
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"Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it"
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"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire."
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"It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end."
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"Anger makes people stupid."
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"Time is what death needs to grow people in."
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"Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them."
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