Decoded Quotes

“And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:change

“But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:writing

“The music is meant to be provocative — which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it’s dense with multiple meanings.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:music meaning

“Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don’t bother trying to get it. The problem isn’t in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don’t even know how to listen to the music.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:music

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

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:music

“Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they’ll never get again.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:experience

“Identity isn’t a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:past

“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.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:poverty

“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor...”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:poverty

“I believe you can speak things into existence.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:speech existence

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