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Talib Kweli

"The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion."

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Donna Grant

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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Donna Grant

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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Donna Grant

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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Donna Grant

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."

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Donna Grant

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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Donna Grant

"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."

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Donna Grant

"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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Donna Grant

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

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Donna Grant

"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

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Talib Kweli
"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."

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Talib Kweli
"Woman are complex creatures."

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Talib Kweli
"I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work."

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Talib Kweli
"The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion."

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Talib Kweli
"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."

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Talib Kweli
"I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop."

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Talib Kweli
"I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props."

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Talib Kweli
"I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18."

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Talib Kweli
"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output."

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Talib Kweli
"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."

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