Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
Adam Mansbach
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
Nas
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
Quavo Migos
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
Naomi Klein
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
Fat Joe
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
Damian Marley
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
Nicki Minaj
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J
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I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.
Paloma Faith
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I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk?
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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I ain't Mary, so ain't a damn thing Poppin'.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
Louis Mario Freese
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Morgan Freeman
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Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
Ed Greenwood
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The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
H. L. Mencken
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It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.
Zachary Quinto
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The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop
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