“This feels good, just like I imagined it when I was talking to my kindergarten teacher…
“Hope is what I saw in the eyes of the folks going to caucus last night,” Obama said, “If you ware willing to reach for what you know in your gut is possible. If you believe, as I believe, that we have to reach out and give the next generation the same chances that somebody gave us, if you believe in keeping the dream alive for those who still hunger for opportunity and still thirst for justice, then I am absolutely convinced that we will win the New Hampshire primary in four days.”
"I'm not gay. And I'm married. And I have four kids. I been with my wife for 16 years," Stokes told MTV in an exclusive interview. "And I'm not a child molester. So those are all false allegations. I'm gonna sue them. And I owe that to my wife and kids, period. It's ridiculous."
I have my own opinions on this, as we all do, but regardless of whether he's guilty or innocent, isn't it interesting that he chooses to say he's not gay before he even gets to the child molester part?
“There’s certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I’ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don’t want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don’t want my credit to look black… White-people food? You know what it is. You never ate fried chicken and said, ‘This tastes white.”
"I don't know if it's people love to build you up to break you down or – I don't know what's going on. Things have just turned a little vicious. 'Cause I read stuff about me on the Internet, like, baby, what did I do to you?"
ROBERTSON: Even though she's Hillary Clinton, they see themselves, you know, within her, dealing with the family issues, the infidelity issues.
[CNN's CHRIS] LAWRENCE: Robertson says Clinton's ultimate embarrassment is her greatest asset.
ROBERTSON: She decided, you know, whether she wanted to stay or not, and I really think, you know, people respect that about Hillary Clinton, especially black women.
"I guess they have their rules that apply individually to each artist separately: 'Oh no, he can't say that, 'cause he feels like that about that person,' " he said. "But it's not a rule that applies to everybody else. Matter of fact, my next single, I'm going to start it [with], 'It's Britney, bitch!' "
"At least I know where he stands. And you know what? When he called them nappy-headed ho's, I went, 'Wow, he's right!' "
That got the co-hosts and the audience shouting over each other, but Wayans said a person's reaction to a statement like that all depends on his or her perspective. "Black people at home are laughing right now," he said. "White people are going, 'That's not right!' It's all cultural."
"By doing this type of thing, I feel like I'm saying to her, 'It's OK, what you're doing is OK,' " the Baltimore native explains in a scene in which he takes Shawn shopping. "In the back of my mind, it would feel better if I knew I was doing this for my mother [when she were] well. I felt like after I left [the store], maybe I should have said, 'No. Until you get better, I'm not doing anything for you.' But sometimes it's hard to face reality."
"Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn't need to hear the kid was white with blond hair. Once he'd shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper." Gibson later stated, "I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again."
…Gibson continued: "So when I heard the kid shot himself, I said, well, you know, ordinarily I would expect it to maybe be a rapper, thug, gangster on campus with his nine — 'I shining my nine, you know how I do.' But, you know, it turns out it was a kid who would shoot himself — well, story over, not a black kid."
If you read the transcript, you'll note how Gibson repeatedly tries to blame it on hip hop despite the fact that the kid was a Marilyn Manson fan.
Talib Kweli on Mos Def's anger at rappers for not attending the Jena Six protest:
"I agree with Mos Def as far as being critical with these artists," Kweli explained. "I think as artists who can say something, we have to. In my career, I have been critical of artists as well. But I will say that the hip-hop generation has mobilized around the Jena Six thing. I feel like there was a lot of hip-hop activism that got the 10,000 people who were there down there. And I'm more inclined to look at what those people are doing, 'cause those are the real heroes and the real activists. These artists, man, are followers. Mos Def happens to be a leader. So he happens to be above and beyond your average artist. But your average artist is a follower. And we have to create leaders, and leaders are not going to come from young rappers."
A year after Rabbit was gone, I was on tour like crazy with Cash Money, and my momma said she was bored, alone, and scared in the house by herself. She was like, 'Why don't you just have a baby with somebody? Just tell the little girl's mom I'ma take care of the baby, don't worry about that.' I was like, 'I don't have nobody I like like that!' She was like, 'Just find somebody! You don't like Toya?' I was like, 'Alright, I like her then.' Toya was 14 when she got pregnant, and I was 15 asking 14-year-olds. Toya's the only person that agreed outta all the ones I asked. I said that my momma wants a child. And they was like, 'That's your momma's problem!' So Toya was like, 'Shiiit, when we due, boo?
I take exception to the fact that when in our community, we've got people dying in the streets, especially in your area, New Jersey and Philadelphia, one of the most violent in the country, kids are dying left and right, and this is the issue we're wasting time on. It's ironic, the things we think are important as a society. The governor [New Jersey] almost got killed rushing to an apology for a dumb joke. He literally almost lost his life. That's the height of irony. In the end, if he'd have died, would that have been worth it? Over an apology for a stupid joke? Is that where we've come? That's dumb.
"This is just a temporary situation." says Foxy. "I made my bed and have no problem lying in it. My will is steady. What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. I think there are greater injustices in America that require our immediate attention, like what's going on in Jena, Louisiana. I will not surrender, I'm fine, free Jena Six!"
When two brothers are successful or have influential and powerful friends, we have to emasculate them. On the real, we even did it to Oprah and Gayle. We have to get over that because at the end of the day who really cares? We have Katrina, autism and children killing one another in my hometown of Newark. I don’t know what the obsession is with celebrities, but maybe it helps people feel better about their own situation. We just know that it’s something that comes along with being in front of the camera.
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