Peace in patriarchy is war against women.
Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!
And when I say it, they get alarmed. . . 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.
Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.
Music should be some kind of nourishment.
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.