Mos Def Quotes

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• Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
• I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
• Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
• Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH
• I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
• They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
• Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
• With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't…
• 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 represent.
• I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
• 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…
• 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…
• I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point,…
• You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
• It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they…
• I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular…
• I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
• Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
• I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't…
• My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see

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