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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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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day.
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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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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there! Then you get across the street and you're like, Yeah I'm here! And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.
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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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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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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 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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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
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If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, This is so ridiculous.
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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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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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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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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.
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