H. Rap Brown Quotes
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
Quotes to Explore
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
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The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
