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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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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day.
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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'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
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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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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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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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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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My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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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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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
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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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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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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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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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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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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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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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Reckless capitalism kills black people.
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