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• He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was…
• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain.…
• The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
• The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
• Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
• Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'
• There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world…
• There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The…
• When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television…
• When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them…
• You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a…
• We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

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