Wale Quotes
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Some interviewers aren't even interested. They're just doing it because they gotta do it. Life is nothing without passion. Whatever you're doing, at least be passionate about it because I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'm passionate about the words I'm saying right now. Just be passionate. When the interviews is passionate, it's more conversational and we're not covering the same ground.
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You niggas so-so like a seamstress.
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The Loudest person in the room, is usually the brokest
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.
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May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.
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You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.
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Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie
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The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
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I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.
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It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous
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Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.
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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.
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I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.
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I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about.
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I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.
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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.
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Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?
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You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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If I woke up tomorrow and didn't have a dolla, as long as I have my heart, I can get it all over.
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