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  • Rapper
  • born 1975
  • 175 quotes

Talib Kweli, a rapper (born 1975), is quoted 175 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Hip Hop, Rap, Thinking and War.

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War is not civilized.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Woman are complex creatures.

Life is a beautiful struggle.

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

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

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

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

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

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

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

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

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

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