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Talib Kweli Inspirational Quotes (95)

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I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.
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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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War is not civilized.
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.
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