Talib Kweli Quotes
I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
