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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#economy #everybody #immigration #issue #mind

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. ↗

— Chuck D.

#aim #always #black #even #everyone

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' ↗

— Chuck D.

#because #even #i #in the past #includes

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. ↗

— Chuck D.

#anyway #being #bought #computers #difference

To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering. ↗

— DMX

#live #meaning #suffer #suffering #survive

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil. ↗

— DMX

#because #call #devil #person #power

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

#fundamental #guilty #important #innocence #judicial

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity. ↗

— DMX

#donald #every #heard #his #i