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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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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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Don't look down, it's an impossible view Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
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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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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 know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
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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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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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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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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.
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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 just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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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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