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"Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory."
"One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail."
"It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed."
"My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die."
"Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them."
"You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on."
"The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved"
"A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
"Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear"
"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe."
"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."
"The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone."
"Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it."
"I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression."
"Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight."
"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television."
"I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh."
"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
"My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop."
"To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract."
