Rap Quotes - Page 29

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art? What's when you sell out just to get a start? What's when you make bullshit just for the charts? What's when you rap, but it's not from the heart? What's when you're hardcore, then you turn pop? When you steal ideas to get props? When you sell out to be on top? What's when you front like you're hard, but you're not? That's a gimmick.

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk? It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

I ain’t no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.

A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?