Be That One! Quotes

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Don't fall in love rise with it

Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.

Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

He was the toast to her butter.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.

You know something, it's best no to have what you need because then, you start looking for what you need and make it what you need.