Maxwell
Maxwell
Grammy Award-nominated R&B artist whose albums Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite and BLACKsummers'night were both Platinum-certified.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth23 May 1973
CountryUnited States of America
fighting people selfishness
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"
forever sometimes disappointed
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
boards came chances control fourth happens knew points wear
We just had to be patient. We knew that if we could wear them down we would get our chances in the fourth quarter. Our fast-break points came off of our defense. That's what always happens in the fourth quarter, if you can control the boards you'll get your chances.
past views curiosity
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters
sadness patient kind
His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.
sunset dark light
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
soul cameras lenses
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
memories mind goes-on
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.
spring lying home
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.
doors gone get-back
I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.
emulation reader moved
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.
humility people serious
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.
people deprivation ifs
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.
sensitive considering knows
Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.