Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.
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In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
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Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
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Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that.
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I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
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You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.
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To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
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Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.
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Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.
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I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
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But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.
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I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.
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And so we have one of the great ironies of the early Christian tradition. The profoundly Jewish religion of Jesus and his followers became the viciously anti-Jewish religion of later times, leading to the horrific persecutions of the Middle Ages and the pogroms and attempted genocides that have plagued the world down to recent times.6 Anti-Semitism as it has come down to us today is the history of specifically Christian reactions to non-Christian Jews. It is one of the least savory inventions of the early church.
