Jay-Z Quotes

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• Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
• Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might…
• We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
• I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It…
• Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
• Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a…
• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much…
• You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the…
• Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to…
• I believe you can speak things into existence.
• [T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a…
• [T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need…
• On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his…
• Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and…
• I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were…
• This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls…
• If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life…
• New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride…
• No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you…
• I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

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