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Harry Belafonte hit me to the...

Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."

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I think the biggest problem i...

I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.

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Michael Bloomberg is a sensib...

Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.

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People didn't really take whi...

People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

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As an artist, I have to be a ...

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.

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I feel like your city - with ...

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

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Life is a beautiful struggle....

Life is a beautiful struggle.

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The way I feel about Crunk Fe...

The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!

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I feel like I have way more r...

I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.

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I ignored your aura but it gr...

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

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The most important time in hi...

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

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You gotta get back to your es...

You gotta get back to your essence,
Use your gifts and share your presence,
Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

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When I met you it was magic.....

When I met you it was magic...
We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

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A true artist does not depend...

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

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My parents are my biggest inf...

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

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I like the fact that I can re...

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

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The founder of Crunk Feminist...

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

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I'm spinning records and I lo...

I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

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I have a luxury of people com...

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

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I don't care if Rick Ross is ...

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

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