Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

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• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • You
  • Unique
  • Clothes

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
  • Kid

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Home

• I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

  

  Little Richard
  • Gentleman
  • Much

• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Words
  • Angels
  • Bully

• You have to feel good about yourself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Feels
  • Feel Good

• I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Theory

• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Real
  • May
  • Past

• Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • Environment
  • Human

• If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Happiness
  • Goodness
  • Disposition

• The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • People
  • Laws

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

  

  Molly Crabapple
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Things

• It was as though I found the language I'd wanted from photography; the expression that I got partly from photography, I got completely from cooking.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Language
  • Photography
  • Cooking

• Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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