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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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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."
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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."
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"Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine."
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"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
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"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."
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"Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood."
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"The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them."
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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."
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"I've always liked men better than women."
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"I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school."
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"Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that."
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"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time."
Time
"Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do."
Heart
"I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is."
Love
"Music and the music business are two different things."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
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"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear."
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"Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing."
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"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."
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