Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's … - K'naan

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Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

K'naan

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

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In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

Artist, Dream, Leader, Thought

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

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Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation 3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan 4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation Go against the Fam until they cave in 5, Now who's left in this deadly equation? That's right, it's me against my Brother Then we point a Kalashnikov And kill one another.

Against, Brother, Deadly, Hip Hop, Left, Rap

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

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A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked. . . . For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose. ' And I always choose to be blissful. '

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The strong man is strongest when alone.

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Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

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Thomas Friedman

The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

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Rick Larsen