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Talib Kweli Inspirational Quotes (95)

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I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
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They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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