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Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1982

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Library Hood Situation Blood Outside

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Robert Neelly Bellah

Home Children Child Parents Process

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Law Law Enforcement Society

When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.

College Me Nobody Left Expected Did

Trying to change before you're ready isn't likely to be productive. For example, most New Year's resolutions don't last because people spring into action without being prepared for the work it's going to take. Forcing change based on a date on the calendar, rather than a true readiness to transform, can be a setup for failure.

Work Change Failure Spring People

Competition is normal at a big club, but I've never been worried about it.

Stephan El Shaarawy

Competition Never Club Normal Big

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Beautiful Attention Real Poet His

Lev Nussimbaum was born in October 1905, the moment when the tolerant, haute capitaliste culture of Baku began to fall apart.

Moment Culture Fall Born Apart

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

Louie Schwartzberg

Food Plants Our Third

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

Best Beginning Doing Way Century

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

Good Power Villain Feeling Awesome

Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.

Love Success Writing You Artist

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

People World Game Dangerous Days

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