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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

Talib Kweli

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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
Musician
Poet
Rapper
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Brooklyn
New York
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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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 like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.
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