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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
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Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.
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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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As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.
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One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.
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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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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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A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.
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Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
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I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.
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My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
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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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There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.
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Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
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Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
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I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make.
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When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
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There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
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We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.
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You can't hear me? Read my lips!
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If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.