Latest T.I. Quotes from Interviews

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• It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

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  Children, School, Parent

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

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  Community, One Day, Investing

  Source: www.ebony.com

• We have been underserved, underprivileged and unfortunate for far too long. There are no more excuses. It's not enough to have limited progress and allow our expectations and sense of purpose to evaporate. So, if that means we must sacrifice some nights at the club and give up buying the latest designer handbags and sneakers... well then damn, so be it.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

  T.I.

  Community, Transforming, Our Community

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• We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.

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  Abundance, Broke, Caught

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• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

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  Children, Real, Mean

  Source: www.ebony.com

• You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.

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  Moving, Issues, Way

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• We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

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  Accountability, Rich, Selling

  Source: www.ebony.com

• We can't fix what we do not address.

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  Addresses

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• We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Community

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• All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.

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  Effort, World, Helping

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.

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  Thinking, People, Long

  Source: www.ebony.com

• If you are a true fan, you're a fan for one of two reasons. You either support what I do or you support me as a person. If you support what I do, the quality of work speaks for itself. If you support me as a person, my personal and political views won't alienate you. If you find a way to be turned off, that means you were never a fan in the first place. You were just riding the wave.

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  Mean, Views, Two

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• If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.

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  Use, Want, I've Learned

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• I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

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  Mean, Perfect, Darkness

  Source: www.ebony.com

• The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

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  Together, Different, Attention

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• Whatever column you fall in - Christian, gay, straight, Black, White - there is no world where people exist that are exactly like you. No one group of people can righteously rule the world. There will be people who differ in opinion, and even in that difference of opinion, we must respect each other.

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  Christian, Fall, Gay

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• It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

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  People, World, Understood

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• I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.

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  Not Good Enough, Police, Looks

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

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  Teacher, Knows, Amount

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I know what it's like to be so distracted by your surroundings and in the moment that it's seemingly impossible to not get caught up in 'em. I know what it's like to feel so much smaller than the activities of your environment that you can't see how not to succumb to 'em. I know what it's like to not be able to focus in class due to real life hunger pangs. I know what it's like to be disruptive just to pass the time and take your mind off what's lacking at home. I know what it's like to be laughed at by your teacher when you tell them what you hope to be in life.

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  Teacher, Real, Home

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

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  Teach, Knows

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• If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.

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  Devalue, Ifs

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• We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

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  Children, Mean, Dying

  Source: www.ebony.com

• While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.

  T.I.

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.ebony.com