Aloe Blacc Quotes

“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”

“What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.”

“I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.”

“[h]ope, like a desert aloe. Hope, stubborn and bitter to the taste. That hides water. That bears the drought. An ugly plant with the power to heal.”

“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning our life held a joy and amazement which was newborn every day. Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear; but they did not work themselves to the beginning until our high beginning was aloes on our tongues. By then anguish and fear had become the surface on which we slipped and slid, losing balance, dignity, and pride.”

“Learn how to learn before you learn”

“What better way could we teach our children the importance of learning to push forward despite failure than to openly embrace in the education system Trial and Learn as our truly only human learning process. In doing so, we eliminate the stigma of failure and view it as an important part of the process of learning.”

“Learn how to learn...then start learning”

“When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.”

“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”