Peace (and no teeth)..that's the word to play
Crazy quotes, inspiration, little known facts.. you figure it out.
Cooked up during February 2003
"What is life without passion? Life without passion is all gray, it's flat, it's boring. It's like a rainbow with two colors. That's not a rainbow. And that's not life either." - Tina Campbell, Rolling Out, January 16, 2003
"What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here." - Avery Brooks, Rolling Out, January 16, 2003
"The future of the b-boy is up to the ones who are able to look past the rules." - Common, XXL, March 2003
"A man is one who has the courage to face his fears and to move through those fears without being paralyzed by them. He's courageous and looks fear in the eye, and through acknowledging it, he finds the strength to move." - Laurence Fishburne, Rolling Out, January 30, 2003
"If David can go against Goliath with a stone. I can go at Nas and Jigga, both, for the throne"
- 50 Cent, "High All the Time", Get Rich Or Die Tryin (shaken in by Tony Mill$)
"...they mostly come at night....mostly."- Eric Cartman, South Park (shaken in by aCatcalled?uest)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, but learn as if you were to live forever.. If you let someone go that you love and they return, they never left. But if they never come back, they weren't yours to begin with. Learn, live, and love." - (shaken in by Nojh)
"I'm on Benzino's new album, but I'm ridin' with Em, and 50 and them. All I know is that Eminem don't with my sales at all. And more niggas in my hood listen to Eminem than they do Benzino. By the way, Benzino, where's my money?" - Daz Dillinger, XXL, March 2003 (shaken in by ?)
"Words dont hurt so dont take things personally." - (shaken in by Lady50)
"Your focus is your future." - (shaken in by Pipe)
"Sean John, Rocawear, Phat Farm? They didn't do anything I hadn't done already done. Eveyone knows I'm a true designer from the streets. They just took my styles and put their names on them." - Karl Kani, Vibe, March 2003
"I love you like a fat kid loves cake!" - 50 Cent, "Poor Lil Rich". Get Rich Or Die Tryin
"Justin Timberlake has been nominated for two Soul Train Awards. This is the worst Black History Month ever." - Jimmy Kemmel, Jimmy Kemmel Live
"Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them....but you know they're always there."
- (shaken in by Boogieboo)
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
- (shaken in by DefineQuality)
"For me, it has been, to be that guy that does what people say can't be done. I think it started with trying to please my mother and trying to please my grandmother. They always wanted higher for me, they always wanted more for me, and it got to the point that I wanted to be something, I wanted to be somebody.
It made me choose certain roles. It made me turn down certain roles; there is more than an image that I want to project. I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last one to leave.
That's who I want to be.
Because I think the road to success is through commitment and through the strength to drive through that commitment went it gets hard. And it is gonna get hard and your gonna want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are and who you want to be. I definitely found that wanting to be an actor stems from wanting to be somebody and wanting to say something to people."
- Will Smith, Inside the Actor's Studio, Feb. 16, 2003
"..before you can transform society, and transform the world, you've got to transform yourself."
- Minister Benjamin Muhammad, The Source, March 2003
"We did a photo shoot a couple days ago and they wanted us to go to a park and pose with some leaves. I'm like, 'Shit, I'm from Camden. How many trees you see in Camden?' I'm not no street thug. But the flowers and grass and shit? We're a hip-hop group. Fuck all that organic jazz-band shit."- Kamal (The Roots keyboardist), The Source, March 2003
"We're not our own worst enemy. The people who put you on the front page of the newspaper for 10 days straight, that's our worst enemy. And then someone who's never been around someone of our culture, all they know is what they see.
Like, I been around people that have never even met a Black person. They're just shocked to see me. And when I'm acting cool, they're like. 'Damn, I only thought you could rap.' I say, 'Nigga, I don't even rap! I'm a businessman!' But all you would know is what you see of me on TV. You might just think I pour champagne on girls heads and stuff and have no opinions because they never let us talk. On MTV, every time I say somethin' smart, it gets edited out. Every time they ask me about cars, I'm like, 'I did that already, I don't drive cars, B. That's corny. I invest in art.'" - Dame Dash, The Source, March 2003
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