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To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Look away World Reach God
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

Nothing Doom man Belief Movement
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I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.

Mirror Exchange starts You see Done something
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As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

As kids Complain Being poor How rich
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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

You make Some money Show face Inspire people
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.

Reasons Inequality Country Everyone
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I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Myself Certain way People Stay true
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

Racism Taught Home Teenager
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.
Make music Good collaborator Foundation
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A wise man told me don’t argue with fools. Because people from a distance can’t tell who is who.

Wise man Argue Fool People
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A bloody well of compatriots filled In western education gone bad Where one bang tears up the man Consuming the rest around him.

Bloody well Compatriots Western education
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Stop shifting!!!! When a woman is raped, killed, sexually harassed or abused and your response is “but men are raped too”- this makes you part of the problem. STOP IT!!

Stop shifting Woman Raped Killed
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Rest In Peace to the legend Majek Fashek and thanks to him for the great childhood music memories!!! Had a pretty engaging interview with him 6 years ago...

Rest in peace Legend Thanks Great childhood
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, you haven’t failed . You just haven’t gotten it Right yet. Keep putting your mind to Work.. Soon it will Happen.
Failed Gotten it Right Keep putting
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Hate and Violence are NEVER the answer. Besides, the claims for these xenophobic attacks are unfounded, misplaced and foolish. Xenophobia is ANIMALISTIC in every sense. Our prayers for all our Nigerian and African families in South Africa. Protection,Peace,Love.

Hate Violence Never Misplaced
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The regular trademark of the average Nollywood film is Sorrow, Tears and Blood. Oya argue with you r music instructor.

Regular trademark Film Sorrow Tears
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Most of the things you see as fun on here and you don’t pay attention to, might affect your generations to come either for GOOD OR BAD

Good or bad Pay attention Generation The things
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Democracy Good Other systems Worse
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

Fundamental rule Human life Approach
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Great disaster Remember Big things Life
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Too easy Make suggestions Escape Consequences
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Policy Too cautious Greatest risk
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

Tell Condition Nation Looking at status
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Agitational attitude Good enough Consideration
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Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

Many people Choice Friends
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Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

Suffering Good Soul Teaches you
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You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.

Trust yourself Forever Looking
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Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.

Hate Love Everyplace
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

My manner Thinking Approved.i care
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

The man Alters His way Thinking
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

Law Man's life Capital punishment Inadmissible
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To those that are too young to know, during the coup d'etat against Buhari's vicious & murderous military regime in 1985 it was Dangiwa Umar who effected his arrest in Dodan Barracks & took him into custody

Too young To know Military regime
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They say a prophet is not known in His Homeland, But In Isoko they honored me with A life time Award. Good news is I nor be prophet..

Prophet Not know Homeland Honored me
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Time waits for no man and a stitch in time saves nine. Do the needful today and leave no room for regrets.

Time Waits No man Needful today
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Always look beyond the smile. Sometimes it's just a mask hiding something deeper. Not everyone can cry out for help. Be sensitive to your circle, you just might save someone.
Always Look beyond Smile Hiding something
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Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.

Activist Admired Sacrifices Hold dear
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The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

Working class Poor Normal people World
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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

An abstractionist Not interested Relationship Human emotions
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If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Only moved Color relationships Are missing Point
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

Progression Painter's work Toward clarity Elimination
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For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Authority Doctor Plumber Never questioned
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Life is too short to be lived badly.

Life Short Lived badly
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Nothing worse Saying goodbye Dying
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I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Understood Grandmother meant Comfortable Never
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Love is the opposite of good sense.
Love Opposite Good sense
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Poverty too. Very profitable business.

Poverty Business Profitable
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Demanding good governance is a sign of love for country and an act of patriotism. When people advise you, it means they do not want you to fail. Alas, in Zambia, when you voice out, you are considered an enemy.

Good governance Love Patriotism Zambia
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Just because a dog doesn't bite its master doesn't mean you are safe too.

Dog Master Mean Safe too
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Don’t be deterred by criticism; rather, see it only as a tool crafted to make you a better person.

Be deterred Criticism Crafted Better person
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