#some

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#because #being #bores #drive #else

You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#day #eat #four #go #graze

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#after #coming #day #house #killing

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#angry #being #feel #get #i

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ↗

— Javan

#illusion #just #just be #magic #sometimes

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#back #because #day #fad #hip

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#believe #believing #coming #part #something

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ↗

— William Jay

#friend #half #having #how #pleasure

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#change #i #never #one thing #really

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#answer #cannot #form #found #govern