Poetry Quote by Andre Benjamin Download Open image “As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.” — Andre Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Rapper Verses Who you are Window
People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise. — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
Honestly, when I do a lot of records where it's super lyrical, all that it is to prove and to show people, like, I… — Joyner Lucas Copy Share Image
Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter. — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
I say if you don't write your lyrics, then you can't be the best rapper alive. Not at all. You can be one of… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. — JD Era Copy Share Image
I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper. — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet. — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share
I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm a thinker; I think too much. So for me to freestyle rap, it's like I'm thinking three, four time steps ahead, and I… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
