Kendrick Lamar Quotes
We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
Quotes to Explore
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
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My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.
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If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.
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We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
