We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
