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Killer Mike Quotes

I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1975

Topics

Community I Am Proud Doing Violence

My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it, no questions about it.

Men Questions You Where Who He

I'm from Berkeley, so I don't really aspire to a lot of glitzy stuff. But things like having a home that I'm comfortable in or leasing a car that I'm comfortable in, basic everyday kind of stuff, I will splurge for that.

Home Car Kind Comfortable Everyday

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

Good Community Think Long Party

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

Best World Push You Down Way

Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

Jonathan Galassi

Yourself You Look Editing More Ask

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

Christian Marclay

Work Music Speed You Play Try

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

Day People Start You Say Kind

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Priyanka Chopra

Work Hard Work Brother Mom Believe

When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.

People Talking You Look Innocent

I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.

Tiffani Thiessen

School High School Fake Never High

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

Fun Me Performance Song First Scary

I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Work Me Leaf End Chapter First

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