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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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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going how are you doing?
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I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
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Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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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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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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Don't look down, it's an impossible view Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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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.
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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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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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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 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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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
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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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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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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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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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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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