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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.

Mos Def

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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
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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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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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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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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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Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
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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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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
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That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.
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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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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
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