Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

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

" I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it. "

" If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing. "

" That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have mad brims. "

" I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody. "

" I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.' "

" All the things that are worth doing, take time. "

" With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? "

" I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. "

" I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about. "

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

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

" What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. "

" Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment. "

" To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. "

" I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work. "

" I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way. "

" Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else. "

" Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective. "

" I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean. "

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