Talib Kweli Quotes
We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
Damien Hirst
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
Baltasar Kormakur
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
P. J. Harvey
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat
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Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
Corrine Brown
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
Walter Dean Myers
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I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
Lana Parrilla
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
Paul Watson
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You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?
Jason Newsted
Metallica
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We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.
Talib Kweli
Black Star