Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  • -- Alice Walker 爱丽丝·沃克

把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书,如果艺术不能让我们变得更好,那么它到底是为了什么。

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The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

写作的过程,我做事的方式是我做任何节拍的感觉,任何节拍告诉我要做的。通常,当节拍响起时,我几乎会立刻想到一个钩子或我想要说唱的主题。在四到八小节的演奏中,我就像,‘哦,好吧。这就是我想做的。

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

我甚至没有学习最新的词典中所建立的定义。我不是编字典的。我是一个词典编纂者不得不应付的人。我是语言发展的活生生的证据。

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

你可能无法改变世界,但至少你可以让罪犯难堪。

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

我发现写作领域的竞争要小得多。