Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.
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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
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Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.
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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
