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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Mos Def

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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Rapper
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Singer
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Yasiin Bey
Dante Terrell Smith
Dante Beze
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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'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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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
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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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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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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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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 don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
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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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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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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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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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