Streets Quotes
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The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.
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The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!
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Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.
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When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
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I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
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...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
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The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech.
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I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"
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I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.
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Remember the street car cannot turn out.
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I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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I love discovering tiny streets.
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I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.
