I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

Consequences are unpitying.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The press is the enemy.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

I became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

We are all the President’s men.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.