I Got My First Exposure To Islam

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.

I'm Trying To Get Low. People's Personalities Can Get In The Way Of Their Own Work.

I Never Had Any Ambitions Of Being A Movie Star Or Anything Like That, But You Know, This Is Nice.

Good Art Provides People With A Vocabulary About Things They Can't Articulate.

I Ain't No Perfect Man I'm Tryna Do The Best That I Can With What It Is I Have.