- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jose Aldo, this guy's a chicken. I can't even tell you how good Jose Aldo is, but he doesn't think it.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it's always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never felt afraid of pollution before and never wore a mask no matter where. But when you carry a life in you, what she breathes, eats and drinks are all your responsibility; then you feel the fear.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020