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I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

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Frank Ocean
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: October 28
Blogger
Composer
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Rapper
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Long Beach
California
Sin
Trying
Believe

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It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
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It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
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You can't think. You just have to do things.
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The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.
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People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.
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With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
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It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.
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Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
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My TV ain't HD, that's too real
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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
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My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
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I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
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I might just write a novel next. I don't know!
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What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter
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Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.
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