Talib Kweli Quotes
Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
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I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
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Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.
