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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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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
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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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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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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
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The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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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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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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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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Don't look down, it's an impossible view Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
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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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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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