Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up. ”

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community. ”

Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years. ”

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. ”

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ”

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? ”

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. ”

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. ”

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. ”

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. ”