147 Quotes by Mos Def

If you’re going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That’s like standing.

There’s just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

I’m an independent thinker. And I’m not the poster child for any movement. I’m trying to support whatever’s right no matter where it is.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it’s a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I’ve done quite a bit with that name and it’s time to expand and move on.

I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I’m just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way.

Young bloods can’t spell but they can rock you in Playstation.

My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see.