Talib Kweli Quotes
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
Quotes to Explore
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
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They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?
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Women can better perceive injustice.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.
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I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.
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I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
