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"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility."
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"Stop confusing poor decision-making with destiny. Take accountability. Wanting, praying, hoping, and wishing for change isn't enough. Desire doesn't changes lives; BEHAVIOR does."

"I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver."

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

"A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes."

"If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn't it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!"

"All this has been created from self-fault and self-imagination!"

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."

"We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom."

"Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society."

"And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind."
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"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."


"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star."


"So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent."


"Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing."


"A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail."
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