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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

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.

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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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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 know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

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

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

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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.

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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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