121 Quotes by Questlove

How do you plan a rebirth? I’m not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can’t endure it any long, and then you move forward until you’re standing in the light.

It’s a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, “I want that.”

I hate holidays because it’s the quietest; it’s the most deafening sound in my apartment.

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you’re not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you’re not serving their idea of you.

I’m not one of those people who’s so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It’s kind of risky writing a memoir when you’re really part of a larger universe.

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn’t go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, ’86. It wasn’t as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.