Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
But to call this a democracy without mock interest
In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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Ed Gillespie
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Edgar Winter
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Malcolm X
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Ram Charan
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
Orhan Pamuk
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Barbara Mandrell
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Zac Brown Band
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Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
T. S. Eliot
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Ernst Toller
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Pliny the Elder
Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors
Curtis Mayfield
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Kate McKinnon
Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
But to call this a democracy without mock interest
In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions