Talib Kweli Quotes
I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.
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I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
