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

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

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

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.

We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato