Talib Kweli Quotes

They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

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• I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Mistake

• The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Religious
  • Sincere
  • Condom

• The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Courage

• I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• Make haste cautiously.

  

  Augustus
  • Haste

• The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Listening

• Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Family
  • Christ
  • Darkness

• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Acting
  • Students
  • Hills

• This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.

  

  Charles II
  • True
  • Words
  • Actions

• They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Apartment
  • Apocalypse
  • Fulfilling