"You can't change where you from. You..." - Quote by Kendrick Lamar
You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
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“I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.”
“Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.”
“The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.”
More on Identity
“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”
“We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”
“Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.”