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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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And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'
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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
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I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
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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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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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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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To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
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That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.
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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 care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
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