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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Mos Def

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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
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Singer
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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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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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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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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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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
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If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
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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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Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
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Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
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At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
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I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
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Don't look down, it's an impossible view Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
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