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The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

Lupe Fiasco

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Lupe Fiasco
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: February 16
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You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.
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I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.
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Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it
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Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.
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Most things that are politically right are morally wrong
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If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear
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I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour
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I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change that is the conversation you must have.
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Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.
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I always say that you define what success is to yourself.
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You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.
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Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.
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They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath
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I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
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Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?
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People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.
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All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.
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I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance whereas hip hop has more facade.
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For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.
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I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.
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