One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work,… — Common Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected?… — Common Copy Share Image
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we… — Common Copy Share Image
I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you… — Common Copy Share Image
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from… — Common Copy Share Image
I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist… — Common Copy Share Image
I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid… — Common Copy Share Image
I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the… — Common Copy Share Image
I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos. — Common Copy Share Image
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I… — Common Copy Share Image
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world. — Common Copy Share Image
When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be… — Common Copy Share Image
Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist. — Common Copy Share Image
Raised by game where niggas ain't phased by fame. Come to the crib, get banged, they take your chain. — Common Copy Share Image
He demeanor of the Ghetto, to never stay settled. Aldermen and corrupt men play Pharaoh. — Common Copy Share Image
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. — Common Copy Share Image
This is street radio, for unsung heroes. Riding in they regal, trying to stay legal. — Common Copy Share Image
Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow… — Common Copy Share Image
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it… — Common Copy Share Image
Every song you make Joe is really hoe music. I heard you said you wasn't a bitch because you sing. You a bitch because… — Common Copy Share Image
I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you… — Common Copy Share Image
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that -… — Common Copy Share Image
The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing.… — Common Copy Share Image
God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge… — Common Copy Share Image
