Talib Kweli Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
-
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
-
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
-
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
-
I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
-
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
-
Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
-
I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
-
I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
-
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
-
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
-
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
-
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
-
There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
-
A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
-
You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
-
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
-
To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
-
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
-
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
-
Never diss somebody’s mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who’s more magical than you are.
-
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
-
It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
-
But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
