Far From A Harvard Student, Just Had

I've Never Looked At Myself And Said That I Need To Be A Certain Way To Be Around A Certain Sort Of People. I've Always Wanted To Stay True To Myself, And I've Managed To Do That. People Have To Accept That.

Don't Ever Go With The Flow. Be The Flow.

But This Is One Of The Things That Makes Rap At Its Best So Human. It Doesn't Force You To Pretend To Be Only One Thing Or Another, To Be A Saint Or A Sinner. It Recognizes That You Can Be True To Yourself And Still Have Unexpected Dimensions And Opposing Ideas. Having A Devil On One Shoulder And An Angel On The Other Is The Most Common Thing In The World. The Real Bullshit Is When You Act Like You Don't Have Contradictions Inside You, That You're So Dull And Unimaginative That Your Mind Never Changes Or Wanders Into Strange, Unexpected Places.

Treat My First Like My Last And The Last Like My First And My Thirst Is The Same As- When I Came.

On The Night He Died - He Was Twenty-seven - Basquiat Had Been Planning To See A Run-dmc Show. When People Asked Him What His Art Was About, He'd Hit Them With The Same Three Words: "royalty, Heroism, And The Streets.