Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) Quotes
Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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When you love someone so deeply they become your life,it's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside,blindly I imagined I could keep you under glass,now I understand to hold you I must open my hands, and watch you rise.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
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I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
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Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.
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Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
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The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
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Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.
