Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter
Fly Away, featuring Kanye west, The Hip Hop Violinist (2005)
Bible References
“Love's gifts are like the vein of gold
That intersects earth's darker mould;
The gold is gained, the coin is wrought;
But how much trouble has it brought?”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
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“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon
Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 119.
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)
Context: The way is open, comrades, free as Space
Alone is free. The only gold is love,
A coin that we have minted from the light
Of others who have cared for us on Earth
And who have deposited in us the power
That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Response to Harold Bell, question about his view on friendship in an Interview (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSFYdFaS3E.
“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Œdipus, Frag. 546
“For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 445
The Canterbury Tales
Amor servo de l'oro, è il maggior mostro,
Et il più abominabile, e il più sozzo,
Che produca la terra, o 'l mar frà l'onde.
Act II, scene i.
Aminta (1573)