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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: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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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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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
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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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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
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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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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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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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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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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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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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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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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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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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 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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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've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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