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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Yasiin Bey
Dante Terrell Smith
Dante Beze
Black Dante
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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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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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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
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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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When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.
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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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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
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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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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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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 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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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 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 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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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
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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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I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
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