Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes

My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.

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• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Person

• Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Kind

• People don't always want to have females as leaders.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Want
  • Leader

• Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Why
  • Game
  • Nice

• The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

  

  Leon Blum
  • Together
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Identity

• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Party

• Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Ideas

• The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Prayer

• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • World
  • Left

• It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Hate
  • Stop

• Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • May
  • Knows
  • Interest

• Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Storm

• Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

  

  Wei Jingsheng
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Teaching

• My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Firsts
  • Stills