Lupe Fiasco Quotes

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  • I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

  • I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

  • The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

    Running   Men   Ethics  
    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
  • If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.

    "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.
  • Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

    "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.
  • Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

  • It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

    Honor   Generations   Hey  
  • Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.

    Fall   Heart   Weakness  
  • I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

    Father   Sound   Knows  
  • I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

    Men   Thinking   Race  
  • Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  • For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

    Lines   Fame   Walks  
    "Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco". “The Tavis Smiley Show”, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
  • I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

    Party   Tea   Fans  
    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
  • I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

  • Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn't make life. It's a lifestyle. It's a style of life. Style is what you are, but everybody has life. And everybody's life should be good. Some of the happiest people in the world have nothing. Nothing. And they find happiness in being in the world. They wear the world with a smile.

    Lupe Fiasco interview with Complex magazine, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. August 1, 2008.
  • I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

    "Bill O'Reilly Confronts Rapper Lupe Fiasco Over Calling Obama a 'Terrorist'". The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2011.
  • First of all, you are not really that supreme.

    Firsts   Supreme  
    "Lupe Fiasco wrote an open letter to white supremacy" by Mike Vago, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.
  • I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others. A match made in heaven, set the fires in hell. The devil on me. Game got my soul. Momma said beware of what the devil do. Tell'em that your soul's not for sale. Every dream is designed and broadcasted from the masters to the masses.

    Dream   Heart   Greatness  
  • China is soon to be probably the most powerful nation in the world, but they only making like $10,000 a year, and that's doing it. They're balling on $10,000 a year, and this is the strongest nation? But it's a billion people. The way it breaks down, if you really look at it, it's still built on the poor, on the backs of hundreds of millions of destitute, impoverished farmers that you'll never see. You just see Shanghai and you see Hong Kong.

    Powerful   People   World  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.

    School   Thinking   Dna  
    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
  • Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

    Moving   Chasing   Dues  
    Song: The Cool, 2006
  • You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

  • If you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

    Fighting   Roots   Causes  
    "Bill O'Reilly Confronts Rapper Lupe Fiasco Over Calling Obama a 'Terrorist'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2011.
  • Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.

    Real   Years   People  
  • I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

  • I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

    Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011
  • I can strip down basic principles of certain things and apply it to everything else. And that keeps you interested, changing the art form, making it more avant-garde. Because I can't play any instruments.

    Art  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
  • My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

    Men   Enemy  
    "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
  • I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

    "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.
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Lupe Fiasco

  • Born: February 16, 1982
  • Occupation: Rapper