#streets

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#allow #black #buy #carried #considered

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking. ↗

— Mark Boal

#came #concrete #could #dust #guard

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. ↗

— Luc Besson

#before #berlin #berlin wall #big #big guys

live and let live ↗

— ROBERT D BOYD JR

#love

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#i #keep #made #once #says

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#city #here #other #safer #streets

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#always #among #boats #cars #crowded

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#bolts #i #nuts #procedure #streets

I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#autographs #because #done #even #get