Talib Kweli Quotes
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
