Fiasco Quotes - Page 2

• All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Spring, Technology, Voice

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blessing, Garden, Rivers

  Song: Fighters, Album: The Cool, 2007

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• I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Voting, Trying

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fighting, America, United States

  "Lupe Fiasco: Obama ‘The Biggest Terrorist’ (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2011.

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• Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Years, People

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• A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fire, Heaven, Hell

  Song: The Coolest, 2007

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• That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fame, Should, Measure Of Success

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Cia Agents

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• When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hate, Differences, Creating

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Writing, People, Trying

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• I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Selfish, Expectations, Sake

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• Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Political, President

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• The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Looks, Stories, Records

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• You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, People, Goal

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• It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Light, Together, Weight

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• I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Opposites, Liberating

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• There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Mean, Men, Office

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Romance

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• Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Heart, People, Doe

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• People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Brother, Jail, People

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• This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Rebel, Flags

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Moving, Chasing, Dues

  Song: The Cool, 2006

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• The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Evil

  "Lupe Fiasco supports Barack Obama but says he's not first black president" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blood, Guy, Drug

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