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"I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers."
"In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it. This year, you have seen a lot of it explode on the international scene. It's great. People are looking for something different. Maybe there was too much of one thing, and now they're looking for something fresh."
"I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie."
"People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable."
"The chief business of the American people is business."
"The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare."
"The happiest people are the ones with the most community."
"We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted."
"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans."
"We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be."
"Reason gains all people by compelling none."
"Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed."
"Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear."
"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision."
"I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected."
"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it."
"Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt."
"People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that."
"What people need and what they want may be very different."
