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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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That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldnt be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. – Mos Def

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Peace
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Focused. Im a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else. – Mos Def

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best
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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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Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East – I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone. – Mstislav Rostropovich

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Beauty

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Beauty

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I dont have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. – Jacqueline Bisset

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Nonsense and beauty have close connections. – E. M. Forster

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites. – Kristin Bauer van Straten

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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. – E. Stanley Jones

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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents dont realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. – Parker Posey

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