Talib Kweli Quotes - Page 6

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• I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, Kind

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• I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

  Talib Kweli

  Hook, Mets, Hook Up

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• So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspiration, Energy, Steps

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• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  Talib Kweli

  Careers, Focus, Looks

  "Talib Kweli: Rap not 'talent-based game right now'". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Jobs, Leader

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• But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.

  Talib Kweli

  Grateful, Cat, Vision

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• We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

  Talib Kweli

  Roles, World, Affair

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• Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous
  It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

  Talib Kweli

  Names, Hip Hop, Deuces

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• I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

  Talib Kweli

  Looks, Enough, Deejays

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

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• I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

  Talib Kweli

  Play, Luxury, People

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

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• I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Rap, Cities

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

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• My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Cities, Community

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

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• I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

  Talib Kweli

  Asian, Looks, Mars

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• But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

  Talib Kweli

  Children, Things In Life, Hip Hop

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• Woman are complex creatures.

  Talib Kweli

  Creatures, Complexes

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• Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

  Talib Kweli

  Loss, Artist, Creative

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• I don’t think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop’s ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

  Talib Kweli

  Responsibility, Thinking, Hip Hop

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

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• Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

  Talib Kweli

  Energy, Music Is, Determine

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• Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

  Talib Kweli

  Want, Way, Online

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• I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

  Talib Kweli

  People, Outkast, Bunch

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• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  Talib Kweli

  Responsibility, Records, Sense Of Responsibility

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• I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

  Talib Kweli

  Children, Love Is, Rhyming

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• I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

  Talib Kweli

  War, Fighting, Men

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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  Talib Kweli

  Writing, Play, Collaboration

  "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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• We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
  Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

  Talib Kweli

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

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