#thing

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#distraction #else #everything #head #politics

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#everything #hear #i #i do #make

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#direct #doing #energy #focused #had

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#being #box #called #compliment #conscious

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#around #basketball #cameras #come #control

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#affairs #aware #destroying #doing #foreign

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#collaborated #dj #even #every #experience

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#anything #big #bottle #guy #half

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#apart #change #come #else #expect

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #course #dirty #dirty work #i