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Rap is the only super-current music. If you're into reggae or dancehall, and you don't know Bob Marley, then you don't really know what you're listening to. But if you're listening to rap, and you're 15, you're like, 'Grandmaster Flash? Who's that? Public Enemy? Yeah, my dad told me about them once.' And that's just how it is. ”
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that. ”
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft. ”
We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. ”
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. ”
I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service. ”
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument? ”
The public is never wrong. ”
I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players. ”
The political parties have lost their loyalties. ”