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We have to get back to we. It's important to get back to we not just I.

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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
Composer
Disc Jockey
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.
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I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.
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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
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I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.
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