American Quotes

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's po

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.

How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.