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

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

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

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.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

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.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

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I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

I started out as a child actor. Back then, I didn't have a manager or company, and I couldn't even dream of having a stylist. My mom made and bought the clothes I would wear. I think that was probably when I first got into fashion.

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