American - Musician | December 11, 1973 -
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
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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 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.
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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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I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
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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 get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way.
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.
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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
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