"Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love."
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"AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious."
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"Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously."
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"The police don't look at you as long when they drive past. Sometimes they don't look at you at all. In South Central, you've got them looking and lurking. I think it's basic harassment. It's part of their tactics to have everybody nervous of them. In the valley, at least I don't feel it the same way."
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"I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it."
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"Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think."
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"I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence."
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"I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody."
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"I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff."
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"Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you"
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"If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks."
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"Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!"
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"You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad."
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"Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it.""
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"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence."
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"But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway."
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"It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong."
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"I think the public will judge if stardom has gotten into my head."
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"Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone."
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"I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said."
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