Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
Jay-ZRead
No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
Interpretation
The quote illustrates a preference for hope and human connection over political concerns.
In this quote, Jay-Z expresses his disinterest in politics, emphasizing that his true passion lies in fostering hope and caring for people. This perspective suggests that he believes in the importance of community and the human experience over the often divisive nature of politics.
In practice
During a community meeting, I might use this quote to remind others of the importance of our shared humanity over political differences.
Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
The most amazing feeling I feel_x000D_ _x000D_ Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real _x000D_ _x000D_ Maybe I paint the sky blue _x000D_ _x000D_ My greatest creation was you.
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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