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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.

Better Feel Feel Good Good Trying

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

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences.

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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

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