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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 have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
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So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.
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I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
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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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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
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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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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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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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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this?
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