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Mos Def


American
December 11, 1973
Musician
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I've always loved rhyming. I love language.


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


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Tags: Good People About
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If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.


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Tags: Get Life Then
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I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.


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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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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.
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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.
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Tags: Space You Up
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.
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Tags: You Like Just
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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