Fugees Quotes
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.
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I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?
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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.
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How you gonna win when you ain't right within?
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I had an economic system imposed on me.
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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.
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I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
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For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
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You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.