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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

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 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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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