Talib Kweli Quotes

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  • I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

  • I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  • Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  • The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

    "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.
  • I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

    Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.
  • Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

  • When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.

    "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.
  • What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.

    "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.
  • Life is a beautiful struggle.

    Song: I Try, 2004
  • I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  • You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

  • No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.

  • I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

    "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.
  • Woman are complex creatures.

  • Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

    Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.
  • The thing is, allies is people who are friends, people you can rely on in the struggle. You're not always going to agree with your allies. For instance, Stevie Wonder I feel like is my ally when it comes to this Florida situation, but I don't agree with his strategy. That doesn't mean he isn't an ally.

  • I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

  • You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

    "13 Questions With Talib Kweli". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com. September 18, 2007.
  • I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  • Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

    Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.

  • I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

  • If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

    "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.
  • 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 On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.
  • When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

    "Talib Kweli: Rap not 'talent-based game right now'". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2013.
  • Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  • Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

  • There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  • I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

    Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.
  • What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

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