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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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All my children are my babies. They're our babies.
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Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
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For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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won more than 30, I think. ... He would tell me that, at 19, I was just getting started.
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
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Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
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Did you know that true love asks for nothing?
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We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.
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We can't live in a place of fear.
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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
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Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
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My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.
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I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.
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Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
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Problems have solutions.
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I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
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We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.
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Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth