“If a man approaches another man in a disrespectful way, especially if they're at a high level in the streets, they're not going to listen to each other. You could be the boss of all bosses, but what gets to you - for real, under your skin, if you got a lady - is going to be your lady!” IfsMenWayRealLevelsStreetsApproachSkinsBossAnother ManHigh LevelDisrespectful Author:Felicia Pearson
“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsRealEnoughTermLike YouConcernIntentionFakeChicagoBeing RealSpitGood IntentionsBaltimore Author:Felicia Pearson
“You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.” WantFeelsEnoughFeelingsSongCarefulBe CarefulLike SomethingCopyrightSuing Author:John Legend
“I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.” WantMadeLastsGrowsRecordsNew ThingsLast Time Author:John Legend
“I think it's not enough for us to extend the hand of love. I think it's important that that goes both ways. It's important also that we look at policies we need to change as well.” ThinkingWayNeedsWellsLooksImportantEnoughHandsPolicyNeed A Change Author:John Legend
“It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.” NeedsImportantHappensCareCertainFightingIssuesIncarceration Author:John Legend
“Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.” NeedsKindLastsBlackCommunityFourPolicyMassRacismBuiltDecadesDestroyedFallenManifestationBrownNeed A ChangeIncarcerationBlack CommunityMass Incarceration Author:John Legend
“It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.” NeedsEnoughFightingBehindsPolicyProtestLove Each OtherNeed A ChangeAgitate Author:John Legend
“You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.” PeopleWonderBarackLiars Author:Randy Newman
“It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.” PeopleWantMatterBigsAmericaGuyMillionsTeamTrumpVoteWho You ArePreparedSurpriseDinnerWant HimBowlingBig SurprisesBraggartsBlowhards Author:Randy Newman