Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

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• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• I'm really funny now.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Really
  • Now

• Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heart

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Choice
  • Word
  • Will

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Why
  • Garden

• Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• What we really mean by free will... is the visualizing of alternatives and making a choice between them. ...the central problem of human consciousness depends on this ability to imagine.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Free

• Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Lies

• Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

  

  Lord Byron

• The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim 'de minimis lex non curat,' does not apply to science.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • May
  • Science

• I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work

• I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Thinking
  • Logic

• It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Feeling
  • Lonely

• Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Baptism

• As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

  

  Zendaya
  • Years
  • Dancing
  • Hip Hop

• I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Career
  • Television

• I know what I'm doing. I know I'm shocking you.

  

  Miley Cyrus

• Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up - and down - a range of strange and distressing mountains.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Up
  • House
  • Journey

• I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • Mind
  • Black