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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

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Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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 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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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
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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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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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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this?
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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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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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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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I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.
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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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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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