Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) Quotes

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
  • Habits

• I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Growing

• I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Perfect
  • Worried

• I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Write
  • Books
  • Try

• It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Better
  • Wait
  • Finish

• You never want to see a guy struggle. And we've all struggled. It's part of the game.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Want

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Time
  • London
  • Sailing

• So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

  Vijay
  • Film
  • Big
  • Parcel

• I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Music
  • Always

• I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Car
  • Never
  • Hollywood

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield

• As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Poetry
  • Human
  • Condition

• Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Book
  • Cooking
  • Clever

• I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

  

  Joshua Ostrander
  • Play
  • Patience
  • Neighbors

• If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

  

  Tariq Trotter
  • Heaven
  • Find
  • Stairway