Quotes By Talib Kweli

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

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.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

War is not civilized.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.