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
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
-
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.
-
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
-
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
-
Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
-
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
-
I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
-
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
-
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
-
When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.
-
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
-
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
