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• ‟ I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

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• ‟ When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

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• ‟ Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

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• ‟ There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

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• ‟ I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

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• ‟ Reckless capitalism kills black people.

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• ‟ I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

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• ‟ I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

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• ‟ I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

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• ‟ I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

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• ‟ It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

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