Wale Quotes
Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.
Wale. Interview with Ebro Darden. Hot 97, WQHT, 2014.
The commissioner was responding to questions about a player-fan brawl that had occurred earlier that year. The media had replayed the tapes of the event thousands of times. The commissioner’s observation applied to everyone in the public eye. Politicians too are so defined as when Edmund Muskie during the Presidential Primary contest cried or with Nixon’s attack on the press or Governor Dean’s scream in Iowa.
A wale is a thick plank of wood fastened to the side of a ship to provide protection from wear.