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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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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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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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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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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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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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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I've got a full life.
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I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
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When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
