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"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
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"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none."
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"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion."
Music
"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."
Thought
"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
Music
"I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it."
Work
"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."
Business
"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
People
"I love putting the music together. It's like art."
Art
"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."
Life
"I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen."
Success
"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."
Work
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