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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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Hey People Thinking
It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Littles Magazine Reading
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Philosophy Understanding Way
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship

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