234 Quotes by Talib Kweli

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise...

But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.

With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.