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" And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone. "

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" I have mad brims. "

" You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. "

" My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. "

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" I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. "

" I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life. "

" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "

" If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio. "

" I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as. "

" I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. "

" You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. "

" In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading. "

" When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up. "

" I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13. "

" Hip-hop is the last true folk art. "

" I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically. "

" I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this. "

" I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice. "

" Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. "

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" You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah. "

" It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.' "

" I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent. "

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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 by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. "

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" African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. "

" I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody. "

" But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent. "