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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

Talib Kweli

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.
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Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
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But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay they might just talk behind your back.
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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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