#ow

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

— Mos Def

#between #deal #having #i #i see

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that. ↗

— Mos Def

#eight #get #guy #guys #i

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

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people. ↗

— Mos Def

#any #artist #available #black #embraced

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? ↗

— Mos Def

#beauty #being #expression #guys #i

Every people should be originators of their own destiny. ↗

— Martin Delany

#every #own #people #should #their

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping. ↗

— Dana Delany

#because #business #channels #dropping #many

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity