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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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.
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I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
