#w

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ↗

— James Joyce

#cheese #corpse #gone #meat #milk

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists. ↗

— Mos Def

#just #leaders #lot #people #propagandists

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? ↗

— Mos Def

#beauty #being #expression #guys #i

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#could #left #men #nature #tyrants

Every people should be originators of their own destiny. ↗

— Martin Delany

#every #own #people #should #their

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#everyone #fifty #talent #twenty-five

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. ↗

— Len Deighton

#asked #asking #book #come #first

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#enough #get #hold #just #long

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#around #different #different things #every #every time

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#around #everyday #everyday life #happening #hear