Quote

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

Mos Def

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mos Def
Age: 51
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
Earth
Sole
Human
Strongest
Humans
Welfare
Islam
Anywhere
Mankind
Rights
Interest
Advocate

More quotes by Mos Def

Image
Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
Mos Def
Image
Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
Mos Def
Image
I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
Mos Def
Image
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.
Mos Def
Image
I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
Mos Def
Image
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
Mos Def
Image
The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
Mos Def
Image
Live now for the promise of the Infinite
Mos Def
Image
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def
Image
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...
Mos Def
Image
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.
Mos Def
Image
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.
Mos Def
Image
Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
Mos Def
Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
Mos Def
Image
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def
Image
Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Mos Def
Image
I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
Mos Def
Image
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this?
Mos Def
Image
I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.
Mos Def
Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Mos Def