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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Justice is revenge.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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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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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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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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Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.
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But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
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On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
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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.
