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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: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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Yasiin Bey
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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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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
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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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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this?
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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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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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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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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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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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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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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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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
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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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And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'
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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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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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