Jay-Z Short Quotes

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I'm not afraid of dying
I'm afraid of not trying.

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We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

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Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

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In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

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They say you can't turn a bad girl good
But once a good girl's gone bad, she's gone forever

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I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell
I am a hustler, baby, I'll sell water to a well

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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

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And through our travels we get separated, never forget:
In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.

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Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

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You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can't falter. You can't slip. You can't sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

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If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

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No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

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If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
Lyrically, Talib Kweli
Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

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The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

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I'm from the school of the hard knocks,
We must not let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot
Let's stick up the world and split it fifty-fifty
Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy.

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I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

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