Talib Kweli Quotes - Page 2

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Basketball, Memories

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• If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

  Talib Kweli

  Rich, Truth Is, Truth Be Told

  Song: Ghetto Show

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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  Talib Kweli

  Teacher, Eye, Thinking

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• When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.

  Talib Kweli

  Teenager, Mean, Kids

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

  Talib Kweli

  Believe, Challenges, I Believe

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• You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

  Talib Kweli

  Healthy Habits, Balance, Healthy Lifestyle

  "13 Questions With Talib Kweli". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com. September 18, 2007.

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• War is not civilized.

  Talib Kweli

  War, Civilized

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• I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, People, Listening

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• You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

  Talib Kweli

  Humble, Squash, Arrogant

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• We commute to computers
  Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
  We survivalists, turned to consumers.

  Talib Kweli

  Eagles, Hip Hop, Rumor

  Song: Get By

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• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  Talib Kweli

  Loss, A Loss For Words

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• I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

  Talib Kweli

  Years, Care, Misguided

  "Rick Ross Rape Lyrics: Talib Kweli Takes Rapper To Task Over Controversial Song" By Jermaine Spradley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.

  Talib Kweli

  Gay, Rapper, Needs

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

  Talib Kweli

  Roles, World, Problem

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• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Stupidity

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• We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

  Talib Kweli

  Army, Boys, Black

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• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Father, Grateful

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

  Talib Kweli

  Moving, Thinking, Rapper

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• I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Deejays

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

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  Honesty, Believe, Artist

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• They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Tell me when do we stop it?
  Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
  Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

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  Rap, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows

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• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

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  Zero, Essence, People

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  Talib Kweli

  Common Sense, Records, Rhyme

  Song: Ghetto Show, Album: Beautiful Struggle, 2004

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• It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

  Talib Kweli

  Focus, Seductive, Celebrate

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