#ted

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. ↗

— Mos Def

#basic #better #buzz #code #conduct

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

— Mos Def

#conditions #hate #helpless #i #inflicted

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. ↗

— Mos Def

#began #being #declaring #def #family

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. ↗

— Mos Def

#bottom #bottom line #companies #dream #got

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #learn #needed #school #started

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#almost #am #care #definitions #forced

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. ↗

— Iris Dement

#feel #help #help people #i #i feel

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum. ↗

— Julie Walters

#else #i #like #mum #wanted

Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle. ↗

— Brad Delson

#capture #cycle #each #feelings #moments

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#being #date #ever #existed #human