Talib Kweli Quotes

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Old

• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sight

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Single
  • Moment

• I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Never
  • Younger
  • Anybody

• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• 'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Road
  • Travel

• The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Work
  • Best
  • Win

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Water
  • Red
  • Japanese

• Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Know
  • Violets
  • Theats

• I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Dad
  • Artist

• You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Know
  • Struggle
  • Yourself