"It's possible and available to any artist to……" — Mos Def
"It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people."
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90 Quotes by Mos Def
Mos Def has 90 quotes on this site.
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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
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Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
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Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH
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I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's…
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They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really…
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Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the…
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I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition…
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I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be…
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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…
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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