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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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Mos Def
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
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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 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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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 can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
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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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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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If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
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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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