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“My middle-class upbringing contributed to the constant criticism I took early in my rap career. I was not a gangster, and I wasn’t selling drugs. I grew up on a nice street in a two-parent household. I went to a Catholic school with mostly white kids until I was fourteen. My mom was college educated. And for all of his faults, my father always put food on the table and would die before he abandoned his kids.”
― Will Smith, Will

“Evidence doesn’t always convince people of the truth, Emma Jean told herself, especially when the lie is what they prefer.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Many people don’t realize this, but the Taj Mahal is a single mausoleum, designed, constructed, and maintained for one woman: Mumtaz Mahal, the favorite wife of Emperor Shah Jahan. The emperor was so distressed by the death of his beloved that he commissioned the construction of the Taj Mahal. He preserved her body for the more than twenty years it took to build (from 1632 to 1653); he spent thirty-two million rupees (nearly a billion dollars in today’s currency), and employed twenty thousand of the world’s greatest artisans, imported Italian marble (which was not an easy thing to do in seventeenth-century India—and not to mention that India had its own makrana marble he could have been using), all to create a private tomb worthy of his lost love.”
― Will Smith, Will

“Don’t ever give others the power to destroy you, little brother, because they’ll take it. Your fear is their invitation.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace