Son Quotes - Page 14

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee

Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I’m old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.