Rap Quotes - Page 8

Life is a gamble, we scramble for money, I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.

Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass. You's a naive cat if you still believe that.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple; Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.

No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are a million stars, but when the sun appears, you see none of them. I am the sun.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

...I've never had a dream in my life, Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued. I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done. So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.