Keith Matthew Thornton (Kool Keith) Quotes
As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
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One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.
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But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
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I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
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I’ve always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times
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As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
