September 2010
41 posts
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of...
– Hellen Keller
August 2010
38 posts
I don’t need your two cents when I’m already a dime
– ND
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I put the world behind me;
that was when I...
– Shahram Nazeri
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You can’t resist it but don’t get it twisted
V.I.P. that means the...
– Easy E, “Players Club”
See I’mma youngin wit too much on my plate
To let some small change have...
– Wiz Khalifa, “History in the Makin”
Take what you want
Steal my pride, build me up, or cut me down to size
Shut me...
– Natasha Beddingfield, “Strip Me”
When y’all was asking permission..
I just stepped up and took it.
– Mos Def, “Oh No”
My apologies, diabolically
I’m the prodigy, do you roger me?
I look in the...
– Lil Wayne, “Run this Town”
These girls runnin’ like I just threw the bouquet
They know I’m...
– Nikki Minaj, “The Cipher”
I think wisdom is very over-rated. Widsom is just cleverness, with all the guts...
– Gregory David Robertson, “Shantaram: A Novel”
So much shit is on my brain, try hard to maintain. Sit and analyze my thoughts,...
– J.Cole, “Welcome”
Accept everything about yourself—I mean everything, you are you and that is the...
– Clark Moustakas
I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having...
– Cicely Tyson
My mind is my modern day Spear
– Nas “Dispear” (with Damian Marley)
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything...
– Gregory David Robertson, “Shantaram: A Novel”
My dreams who I’m racing with..
You can see I’m pacin it,
so that...
– Drake, “Fireworks”
It’s okay to say you’ve got a weak spot
You don’t always have...
– Marina and the Diamonds “I am not a Robot”
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do....
– Lou Holtz
I can’t teach you my swag; you can pay for school, but you can’t buy...
– Jay-Z, “Swagga like Us”
I live for the nights I can’t remember, with the people that I won’t...
– Drake, “Show me a good time”
The truth, is you could slit my throat
and with my one last gasping breath...
– Taking Back Sunday, “You’re so last summer”
2 tags
My Blood B- but I live A+
– SD
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is...
– Pericles
Now I can let these dream killas kill my self esteem
Or use my arrogance as a...
– Kanye West, “Last Call”
But then there was a star danced
And under that I was born.
– William Shakespeare “Much Ado About Nothing”
1 tag
Because You Are Who You Are When Nobody Is Looking
– Nas, “I do it for Hip-Hop” by Ludacris
They say-
it is better to light a candle than to curse the dark
– - K’Naan “In the Beginning”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0pygjQK74
1 tag
One has to work day and night
To plough and to clean the field of the soul
– Sanai
2 tags
Actions have reactions
Don’t be quick to judge
You may not know the...
– GangStarr “Moment of Truth”
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for...
– Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936)
Control your temper.
Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what...
– Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936)
1 tag
I civilized every savage
Gimme one shot I turn trife life to lavish
– Nas, “If I Ruled the World”
1 tag
Strive to become the true human being:
One who knows love,
One who knows...
– AL-Ansari