I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ― bell hooks

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The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. ― Desmond Tutu

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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. – Nora Ephron

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Prince Paul is another good friend; he's like an older brother. He'll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That's what I like about Paul. -MF Doom

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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on? -MF Doom

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Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that. -MF Doom

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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

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I'll be back ― Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.- Maya Angelou

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