Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

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• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

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• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

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• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

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• Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?

  

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• I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

  

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• Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

  

  Jay-Z
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