Vic Mensa Quotes

There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

Eventually, when I got the 'Meadowland' script, I saw something in it that made me think I could make something special out of it, something that could work with my style. Emotionally, I connected to it. I thought, 'If I feel this way just imagining it, maybe we can make that happen on screen and make people feel something when they watch it.'

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

If you're an open channel when you're onstage, if you're just a vessel, things are going to come out that are stored away deep in your DNA.