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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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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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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I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
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Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
