Sunday, November 14, 2010

Words of the Wise

Words to live by often come from our favorite celebrities. What is one of your favorite deep statements by a rapper, actor, or other major public figure? How has it affected the way you view yourself, others, the world, or life? How does it relate to literature you have read? If the quote contains curse words, edit them out to receive credit.

No ideas? Try this one by Jay-Z from "Guns and Roses":

You know the saying, sombody's loss is another's gain
The sun comes out when the water goes down the drain
A rainbow, then the clouds come out we do it again
Everything evens up, you just wait--even a garbage can gets a steak

6 comments:

  1. one of my favorite statements is by young money rapper drizzy drake. The quote is " money just changed everything, i wonder how life without it would go, from the concreate who knew that a flower would grow". There are certain ways how it makes me wiew other people. One way how this quote makes me view other people is that when they dont have money they cant buy food to eat. Second way how this quote makes me view other people is that without money they cant buy clothes. Third way that this quote makes me view other people is that cant live in a house. Second quote by drake that is one of my favorite statements is i grow tired of these grow man liars storytellers, they aint even need a campfire. One way how this quote makes me view other people is that old men lie a lot. Mostly to women which breaks up the realationship. Second way how this make me view other people is they lie to their kids when they are young. Third way how this quote makes me view other people is that they try and get out of a situation when they get in trouble. So they just go ahead and lie. Which is not right because you are making a bad influence on the young people around you.

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  2. The saying I like to use does not come from any celebrity or famous person. To be honest I don’t even know where the phrase comes from. This saying uplifts me during my periods of stress, sadness, depression and also in my happy moments. They may seem like just five simple words to you, amazingly they mean a lot to me. My secret power weapon is the words, EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

    This phrase simple means that at times we go through things that are impenetrable, things that make you ask the two worded question, WHY ME? At those times that’s when I personally look in the mirror and tell myself, EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

    Truly things do happen for a reason. To support my proclamation, I give myself as an example. I left the school last year due to personal family reasons. Where I went to I became a sudden transformation of what I used to be when I was in the school last year and who I am currently. There are things that I did but however I knew they were wrong. To be more direct and stay on topic I begun to cut school and played hooky. At the end of the day this all caught up with me when I got my report card and when my guardian became aware of some of the things. To be honest at that time I did not care what anyone would say about me. I had suddenly become this bitter hearted but appearing kind and happy monster. There came a time when I was almost killed in the location that I was in. Things begun to change for the worse. The outcome of things becoming worse for me was positive. It was like a wake up call for me. That’s when I noticed that I had to fall back to right path of life (the one I am on right now). That’s when I saw that thing happen for a reason.

    To relate to the literature we read I refer to the book things fall apart by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo was rough to Nwoye. He wanted Nwoye to become what he wanted him to be ( not what Nwoye desired.) this further more led Nwoye to set himself free from his father. He converted to Christianity and decided to learn hoe to read and write. That’s a vivid example for why things happen.

    To close I say things would never happen if there was no reason behind them. You would not just decide to go to the store for just no reason. These reasons may include wanting or needing something and even accompanying someone else or even boredom. So word of advice to any out there, even though you feel like your life is worthless currently just wait and you look on the brighter side because you are about the see that things happen for a reason. Hopefully the reason is has a positive impact.
    God Bless…

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  3. My favorite words from a celebrity is when Soulja-Boy Tell'Em admit to everybody that he not gay because a lot of his fans out in the United States say he gay because of him having a lot of guys in his music videos and only once in a while having females dancing for him in his music videos.Soulja-Boy Tell'Em just do that for entertainment because Soulja-Boy Tell'Em he dance alot in his music videos for example like "Crank That" and "Let Me Get E'M{Shoot Out}" those two records were two great big hits back in 2007 when he first started.An now he grow up to become a young man which he is today.Very responsible he have plenty of hotels and house up in Atlanta Georgia.Soulja Boy is a positive influence to me he aint like most rappers out here getting lock up and selling drugs he be in the studio making hit records in making millions of dollars for his entire rapping career.An Soulja Boy is one of the greatest rappers out there rite now because he can make a rap real fast without using pen or paper to write it down.Like soulja Boy just tell you what he do everyday when he gets up.An just start freestyling and spitting raps for days.Thats how nice he is to is I don't care what anybody else think this is my opinion towards Soulja Boy.Out of all rappers out there he has the best swag he be dress up in Gucci Louis V Ralph Lauren Polo and last for at least Bur Berry.Soulja Boy Tell E'm Pretty Boy Swag all day.But besides that he an intelligent rapper out of most of the rappers in the industry.The reason why he a great celebrity to me because he don't get lock up or do gang activity.He just have his own rapping group called S.O.D. which is Stacks.On.Deck money Gang.Just a rap group that he created for new artist out there to join if new artist think they can rap and spit bars in the studio.

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  4. Even thought this artist have negative things flowing around her at times but at the end of the day she one of my favorite artist of all times.My favorite qoute that I follow is ''The good advice, I always hated. But looking back, it made me greater''by Nicki Minja.This quote comes from her song Right thru me.I follow this quote because everyone at one point had a piece of advice that at frist you hated and after while you start to follow this advice and when you looked back at it made you a better person.For I follow this quote by quote at one point I thought I would never thought i would be great at speech because at one point i use to have this very bad sutter problem I still sutter but no as bad as It was in elemantary and middle school.My mother to '' Keke (that what they call me at home) if you can get it together just shut up !!!. That use to get on my nervous because she use to say this all the time and if while i started to really forcus on my speech and if a while my speech started to get better.That why up to that point I never use talk only among my friends I hangout on my block and my mother(only if my suttering was'nt getting on her neverous) That why this qoute relate to me.

    Also another thing i live by is not exactly a qoute but it a piece of a poem by the famous Maya Angelou it '' Still I Rise''. I live by this qoute because no matter what diffcult challenges life throws at me. I WILL ALWAYS RISE ABOVE IT rather it be from school,home(once in a blue moon),and job.

    I WILL ALWAY RISE.

    So this my input on this week blog

    PEACE!!!!

    Keyonna A.

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  5. The saying i like to use is "you can be the king, but watch the queen conquer" by Nicki Minaj.
    Nicki Minaj is trying to say to her fans that a female can do just as much as a man can but maybe a litte more. I agree with this quote because there is many young males out there who think that they got more power then females. This quote affected my life by leting my self know that it dont matter who you are you can
    be whatever your heart and brain tells you. I believe this quote affected others around me because alot of females are standing up for them selfs. This quote affected alot of people around the world such as females fighting in the army,they are cops,and you even had females running to be president!!. I think this quote kind of relate to things fall apart because enzima prove to all her brothers and sisters that just because im a girl dont mean cant do a male job. The things she do makes her father
    Okwonko very pround of her and wish all of his other kids can be just like her. According to Nicki Minaj quote she made me realize that
    females are very powerful and smart. There is times when nicki minaj say disrespectful things but this quote she really got to me. Dont get me wrong there is males who dont think a man have more power then women but most of them do.

    So for all the females out there keep your head up in never for get that we an do anything we put our mine to.

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  6. Madiyyah says: Cherish once said if I could make time stand still I know we will live this moment for ever. This made me think about things that happened in the past that I cud live what happened over and over and never get tried of it because that was the best moment in my life. It makes me think like what if I could make time stand still and what would happen. This relates to me because in a certain time in life you don’t want it to end because that was the greatest memories in your life. Cherish is basically trying to say don’t forget anything that happened in your life that made it great and how it is today. Drake once said to many times I been wrong I guess being right takes to long im done waiting. I guess what drake was trying to say he was trying to fix things that happen but what he did only made it worst. This quote means everybody’s not perfect. No one can always do the right thing. People make mistake and they try to fix but they get tried of it and just give up. And he tried of waiting for something to happen. I guess what drake was trying to say is don’t wasted your time waiting for something it will come when it comes don’t rush it caused then it wont happen. And then you feel like that was a waste of time. And then you try to give up because it’s not going the way you want. You can’t always get what you want because that not how life you have to wait until it comes to you don’t rush it. Everyone learns from their mistake. Chris Brown once stated it takes time living in a world who you don’t know who to trust. This means you can’t always trust everybody because they will turn on you when you least expect it. Not everybody is your friend you got to learn to stay to yourself because it helps you stay out of drama. Keep your distant from certain people.

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