Talib Kweli Quotes
If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
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I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.
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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
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I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
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If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
