I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

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. [But] it's time to expand and move on.

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?