Black Star Quotes
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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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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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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'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither
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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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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
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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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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
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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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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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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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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 don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
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Reckless capitalism kills 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'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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You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.
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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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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.