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War is not civilized.
Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 3
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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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.
Talib Kweli
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 have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week. But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
Talib Kweli
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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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
Talib Kweli
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 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.
Talib Kweli
I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
Talib Kweli
There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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