Talib Kweli Quotes
When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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I love to perform live.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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Most style is not honest enough.
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
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Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!
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I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.
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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
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When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.