“Any person you can cite—Steve Jobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Jordan—they are not common names because they did it nine-to-five. There are people on Earth that dedicate themselves to their practice or whatever. I’ve always been like that.”
Abloh was into skateboarding, Air Jordans, and hip-hop, though he keenly recalls his mother cutting out paper patterns and making garments from scratch for the stream of customers who marched through their home.
“We’re all the children of Kanye’s trailblazing,” Abloh says.
“This generation wouldn’t have the freedom to cross genres had it not been for his passion to find more than what was delivered to him.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” - Alan Watts
Ghana we dey. Monday, protest the system. Wednesday, defend the system. Friday, enjoy the system. Sunday, pray on bended knees to be part of the system.
America has a moral, economic, and national security duty to eradicate threats that endanger our nation’s prosperity, including unfair trade practices that disadvantage the American people and stifle our economic growth. The Trump administration is taking action.
The use of slave labor is repulsive and we will hold Chinese companies accountable for abuses and eliminate threats its forced labor practices pose to our prosperity.
20 years ago, we started @ClintonGlobal to ask people to do more than just talk about the problems we face, but to act and do something about them.
With the global development community at an unprecedented crossroads, we’ve redesigned this year’s gathering to meet the moment: