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"This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?"
"The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them."
"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love."
"If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love."
"I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world."
"I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts."
"This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will."
"Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would."
"I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to change people's moods. I try to write my story in a way that people can take for themselves and their own life."
"You shouldn't be playing the game if you don't think that the win will happen."
"None of you will ever know what I am thinking."
"Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are."
"I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know."
"Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation."
"I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?"
"Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life."
"A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them."
"I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an extremely exciting time with a multitude of opportunities for each and every one of us to engage our individual voices, to engage more effectively collectively, to tackle some of these issues that would have seemed beyond our reach just a few years ago."
"You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I."
"What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to."
