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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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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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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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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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going how are you doing?
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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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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
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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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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
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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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Don't look down, it's an impossible view Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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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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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
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To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
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Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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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You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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