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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasnt just about being noticed, you know? – Mos Def

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Bob Marley performed the One Love Peace concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. Theres always been that in black music and culture in general. Its no surprise because black music is such a reflection of whats going on in black life. Its not unusual for hip-hop. – Mos Def

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Peace
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Mos Def
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I cant control what people think. Im not trying to manipulate peoples thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. Its machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. – Mos Def

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Experience
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Mos Def
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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. Its not a dormant. Its not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. – Mos Def

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positive
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Mos Def
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. – Moses Mendelssohn

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Beauty

Its the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days youve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. – Craig Ferguson

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Beauty

Beauty comes from the inside. – Kathy Ireland

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Beauty

Lila cant be a model until shes at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit. – Kate Moss

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Beauty

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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. – Franklin Pierce

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My nature just changes. – Jimi Hendrix

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. – Wayne Dyer

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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. – Albert Camus

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