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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.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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