D.J. Khaled Quotes

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

When you have life, [it's] the most graceful, amazing thing to happen.

I can move any crowd.

I cut my hair like three times a week. Sometimes more if I'm working, and I know I got to be in front of people with interviews or TV or video. I've been blessed to be so busy.

I'm focusing on my family, raising my family, and staying blessed.

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

some stories don't need telling

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.