108 Quotes by Black Thought

You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.

I move in silence. I don't like puttin' too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.

Lots of people are saying that I shut down mumble rap in one 10-minute setting. But that wasn't my intention, because mumble rap - if we go back - that's something I invented.

There probably won't be an animated The Roots or Black Thought as there was, say, an animated Michael Jackson when 'The Jackson 5' cartoon show was on when we were kids.

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

Questlove and I - we were in high school with artists like Boyz II Men and Amel Larrieux.

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.

I grew up in the neighborhood where 'Rocky' came from.

I want to be at the top of my game.