The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, ‘A civilization is judged only in its decline.’ That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Category Archive: June 7
Hip-hop is a cultural expression – it’s embracing.
The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift – the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.
In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they’re trying to say – or not say.
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn’t understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.