"If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope."

-- Talib Kweli

#Jobs Quotes #Dope Quotes #Rapper Quotes

“Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
“Do something that you love. Whatever you're going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can't come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.”
“He should have no further trouble from her, he thought in satisfaction. Surely by now she knew his dominance over her. She would submit as easily in all matters as she had in this one. He frowned then. She had submitted, hadnÂ´t she?”
“I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.”
“I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own wisdom, to live according to your self-centered feelings, and to gratify the desires of your flesh. In contrast, God's will is for you to be an overwhelming conqueror in all of these tests for His honor and glory.”
“For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.”
“Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.”

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