Black Star Quotes
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History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.
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I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
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I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."
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I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
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Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.
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But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.
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I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
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Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
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That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.
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I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
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I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
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This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.
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So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.
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I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.
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I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content.