Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

The effort to remold, in one's own life, the culture one has grown into is heavy with danger. The searcher is likely to be treated as a criminal or a madman, condemned and criticized by his own society, ridiculed, even persecuted. Even if he is more fortunate--even if he is simply ignored by others--he must begin his struggle as a cripple. For to consciously reject the generalized attitudes' of the parent society is to reject positive reference points that have helped him evaluate his actions and accomplishments.This is the price of freedom on the peripheries. We are able to free ourselves from our parent culture only by destroying parts of ourselves, much as an animal might escape the hunter's trap by gnawing off its own leg. But unlike the wounded animal, the detached person is doubly crippled; however he mutilates himself, he will never quite be free of the trap but will carry it with him in his new freedom.

Donald A. Hansen, An Invitation

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

Tim Pawlenty

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Bernard Sanders

For today...Do all you can, be all you can be to help better brighten the hearts of humanity!?

Timothy Pina

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Henry Ford

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Francis Parker Yockey

Its funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions

Samuel Johnson

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Thomas Paine