What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Ability Copy Share Image
I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they… — Mos Def Black Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. — Mos Def Ask questions Copy Share Image
I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way.… — Mos Def Capable Copy Share Image
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. — Mos Def Different Copy Share Image
Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs. — Mos Def Beef Copy Share Image
Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it. — Mos Def Break Copy Share Image
If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio. — Mos Def Life Copy Share Image
It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to… — Mos Def Able Copy Share Image
You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. — Mos Def Add Copy Share Image
So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on… — Mos Def Artist Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Enjoy Copy Share Image
Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and… — Mos Def Balls Copy Share Image
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone. — Mos Def All alone Copy Share Image
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. — Mos Def Funny retirement Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm… — Mos Def Huge Copy Share Image
Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story, 3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory. 4 MC's… — Mos Def Adventure Copy Share Image
You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your… — Mos Def Best way Copy Share Image
The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life… — Mos Def Doe Copy Share Image
