Latest Q-Tip Quotes from Interviews

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• With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

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  Teenager, Rap, Ghetto

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

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  Dream, Get Better, Doe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.

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  Struggle, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.

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  Art, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

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  Passion, Long, Soul

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

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  Being Yourself, Play, People

• For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

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  Art, Mean, Stuff I Like

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

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  Moving, Firsts, Kind

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.