Talib Kweli Quotes
I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
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If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
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I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.
