95 Quotes by Vic Mensa

But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice. There's no excuse for that. I feel, when the information is at my fingertips, I could never choose to be ignorant.

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

Because many people deny the Palestinian struggle. They deny them everything. They deny them humanity, they deny them the right to be on the land they were born in. They deny them the right to return to the homes that were stolen from them, to build Israel.

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little kid, I didn't feel fully accepted by black kids and I definitely didn't feel fully accepted by white kids cause I just felt like I could never be neither one.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.