Talib Kweli Quotes

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

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

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

Life is a beautiful struggle.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love

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

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

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.

We commute to computers Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors We survivalists, turned to consumers.