Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
If we don't heal our own hood, who will?
Nelly
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
Fiona Apple
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
Samuel Barnett
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To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.
Alex Morgan
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White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?
Ato Essandoh
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I'm blowin' up like you thought I would, call the crib up, same number same hood, its all good.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.
Shy Glizzy
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I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone.
Charlotte Erickson
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If we don't heal our own hood, who will?
Nelly