I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

- Mos Def

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

- Mos Def

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love m…

- Mos Def

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

- Mos Def

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 en…

- Mos Def

We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

- Mos Def

Live now for the promise of the Infinite

- Mos Def

Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style an…

- Mos Def

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

- Mos Def