“It’s still difficult to understand that my father is dead. I’ve been working ever since that afternoon toward two apparently contradictory goals. The first is to acknowledge this death; the second is to defeat it.”
—
Benjamin Cheever, The Man I Thought I Knew, 1988
Also:
“Things just ain’t the same for gangstas; times are changin’, young niggas is agin’.”
— Dr. Dre, The Watcher, Chronic 2001, 1999