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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
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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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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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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
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I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...
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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 want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
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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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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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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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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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My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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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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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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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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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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