Benjamin Zephaniah Quotes
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
Quotes to Explore
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I was a horrible student.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.
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Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
