"I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much."
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"I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know."
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"Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun"
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"There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work."
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"I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k."
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"The wind is the moon's imagination wandering."
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"only through new words might new worlds be called into order"
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"Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out."
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"I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?"
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"We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud."
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"I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up."
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"Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure."
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"I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression."
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"It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement."
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"We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there."
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"The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time."
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"It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America."
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"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."
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"I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it."
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"I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones."
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