#rap

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do. ↗

— John McEnroe

#believe #i #i believe #only #you

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man. ↗

— Tone Loc

#crap #fighting #here #i #know

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#change #changes #fear #form #i

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#geography #history #much #some #too

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

All autobiography is self-indulgent. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#self-indulgent

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#being #being myself #end #female #i

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. ↗

— Sunny Murray

#beats #between #deep #difference #enough

Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull. ↗

— Nelly

#bring #just #like #lot #make

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#aware #easy #feel #hypocrisy #idyllic