Rakim Quotes

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Everything kind of has a message in it.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I try not to look for messages in films.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.