Mos Def

I have mad brims.

— Mos Def

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

— Mos Def

Why do I need ID to get ID? If I had ID, I wouldn't need ID.

— Mos Def

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

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I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

— Mos Def

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

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Live now for the promise of the Infinite

— Mos Def

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

— Mos Def

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

— Mos Def

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.

— Mos Def

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

— Mos Def

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

— Mos Def

My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see

— Mos Def

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

— Mos Def

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

— Mos Def

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs…

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In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was…

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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability…

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I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or…

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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…

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I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew,…

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If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care…

— Mos Def

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind…

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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…

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I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold…

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“I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass The sun beat between my shoulders like carnival drums I…

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I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up…

— Mos Def

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in…

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And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop…

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I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that…

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People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're…

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Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation...

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Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine

— Mos Def

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

— Mos Def

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

— Mos Def

We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

— Mos Def

Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

— Mos Def