William Michael Griffin Jr. (Rakim) Quotes
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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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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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'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.
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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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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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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.
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Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
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It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.
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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