“Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
“And the weed loud, like a lion's roar.”
Intro, written with Willie Hodge and Jermaine Preyan
2010s, Tha Carter IV (2011)
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