Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) Quotes

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest

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• I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Know
  • Me
  • Rapper

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • May
  • Humans
  • Littles

• All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Humans
  • Solitude
  • Aloneness

• I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Success
  • Sex

• Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Purpose
  • Unique
  • Humans

• I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Want
  • Feels
  • Rap

• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Die
  • Humans
  • Changes

• Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Struggle

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Lost

• For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Magic
  • Humans
  • Flying

• If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Different
  • Humans
  • Loss

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Female
  • Killing

• Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • States
  • Competitive
  • Liberal

• 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Lord

• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Blood
  • Snow
  • Fairytale

• He looked at the stubborn woman standing in front of him, her hair uncombed and wild, her eyes red with tears, her face wounded. In that moment, he thought, she was as beautiful as she had ever been.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Tears
  • Stubborn
  • Wounded

• I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Humans
  • Rapper