We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday. — Mos Def Beautiful Copy Share Image
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. — Mos Def Ask questions Copy Share Image
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 Fans Copy Share Image
I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have. — Mos Def Best Copy Share Image
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. — Mos Def Art Copy Share Image
My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see — Mos Def Light Copy Share Image
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. — Mos Def Art Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness. — Mos Def Beautiful Copy Share Image
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… — Mos Def Good work Copy Share Image
Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline. — Mos Def Astronomy Copy Share Image
I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or… — Mos Def Black Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was… — Mos Def Able Copy Share Image
I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs… — Mos Def Album Copy Share Image
I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew,… — Mos Def Believe Copy Share Image
I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin… — Mos Def Declaring Copy Share Image
I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep… — Mos Def Different Copy Share Image
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got… — Mos Def Buzz Copy Share Image
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a… — Mos Def Built 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 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
Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.… — Mos Def Destination 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
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who… — Mos Def Challenges Copy Share Image
There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental.… — Mos Def Arrangements Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work. — Mos Def Get low Copy Share Image
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. — Mos Def Beats Copy Share Image
You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now. — Mos Def Art 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
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
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
I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about. — Mos Def Complaining Copy Share Image
