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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

K'naan

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

K'naan

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

K'naan

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

K'naan

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

K'naan

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

K'naan

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

K'naan

I'm writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

K'naan

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

K'naan

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