Talib Kweli Quotes
If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx
Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
Yousuf Karsh
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
Ice T
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
Randall Jarrell
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
Dan Marino
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
Madeleine M. Kunin
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Otto Bauer
There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
Naveen Jain
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham Lincoln
Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.
Flavor Flav
The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
Leighton Paul Walsh
Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.
Marjorie Liu
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee
I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .
William S. Burroughs
If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
