Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.
You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.
A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.
I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.