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

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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

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

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.

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.

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

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 wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

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.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

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I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

I exercise five days a week at home.

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

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