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

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" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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" 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. "

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

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" I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift. "

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

" I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman. "

" Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear. "

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" I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette. "

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