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From "BUCK," a memoir  of growing up in the Philadelphia Ghetto by M K Asante. He is a major Hip-Hop artist. 

• "There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One wolf is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other wolf is good. It's love, peace beauty, happiness truth, joy, hope, humility, kindness, and empathy."

           The boy asks, 'In the story of the wolves inside everybody, who wins between              the two  wolves?'

       "The one you feed."  

• "At exactly what point do you start to realize  that life without knowledge is death in disguise?"  K.O.S. 
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• "He's a politician. It's like being a hooker,  You can't be a good one unless you can pretend to like people while you're fucking them." 
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• "Pain is weakness leaving the body."
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• Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget." 
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• "You got three things," he says. "Good, fast and cheap...but you can have only two at any given time. So, if it's fast and cheap, it ain't good. If it's good and cheap, it ain't fast." He hands me the work. "This right here: fast and good...not cheap."