Sidney Royel Selby III (Desiigner) Quotes

When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.

Sidney Royel Selby III

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• Black
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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

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• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

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• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

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• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

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• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

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• In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

  

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• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

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• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

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• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

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• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

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• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

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• The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

  

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• India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

  

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• I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

  

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• You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'

  

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• When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • People
  • Why
  • Black