Talib Kweli Quotes

Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard

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• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Game
  • Son

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Political
  • Step

• From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Important
  • Philosophy
  • Issues

• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Future
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • People
  • Want
  • End

• Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Fear
  • Understanding
  • Courage

• It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Hero
  • Playing
  • Thrill

• Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Breakup

• If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the 'Nautilus' of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.

  

  Athenaeus
  • Storm

• There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.

  

  Javier Camara
  • Control

• We've already learned a lot about the production process, and we can't wait for our audience to see what we have in store next.

  

  Kian Lawley

• I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • She
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your health at two in the afternoon.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Morning
  • Dangerous
  • Afternoon

• In these circumstances, the FOMC judged that some further firming of monetary policy may be necessary, an assessment with which I concur.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • May
  • Circumstances
  • Assessment

• 'If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open.'

  

  Epictetus
  • Remember
  • Door

• Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard

  

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