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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff. ↗

— Ice T

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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#fight #hard #point #really #recognize

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. ↗

— Ice T

#man #mr #nobody #oh #pretty

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. ↗

— Ice T

#doing #just #life #make #means

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage. ↗

— Ice T

#enough #i #intimidating #mean #seriously

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. ↗

— Ice T

#arms #bear #because #defense #form

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#i #once #right #stand #take

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be? ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#best #beyond #children #could #goal

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

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