Black Star Quotes
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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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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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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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb
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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 don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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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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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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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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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
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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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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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Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
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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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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 doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.
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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?
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
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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.