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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.

Mos Def

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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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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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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
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I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
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I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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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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I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
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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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Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
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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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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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.
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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 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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That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
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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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