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So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
When I ask OGs why there's so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Quote by -Kendrick Lamar
You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
Quote by -Henry Louis Gates