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All the things that are worth doing, take time.

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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
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Singer
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I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there! Then you get across the street and you're like, Yeah I'm here! And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.
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The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
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Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, This is so ridiculous.
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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.
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I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
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