American - Musician | June 19, 1983 -
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
Macklemore
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
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