Talib Kweli Quotes
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.
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New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
