Black Star Quotes
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
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I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
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It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
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Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
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I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.
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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
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What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.
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I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough
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Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?