Talib Kweli Quotes

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

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• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

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• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

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• So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

  

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• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

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• I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.

  

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• The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

  

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• It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Focus
  • Celebrate
  • Seductive