Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something. ”

Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world. ”

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks? ”

The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own. ”

Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged. ”

I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word. ”

If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about. ”

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti. ”

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. ”

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. ”