The beautiful thing about hip-hop is its like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and itll be a hip-hop song. Thats the only music you can do that with. – Talib Kweli
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. – Talib Kweli
Were in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. – Talib Kweli
I think once youre in the public eye, whether youre a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that youre automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. – Talib Kweli