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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Quincy Jones

Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

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