When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.
I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation. ' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.
I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.
There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own;. . . This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.