Top 100 Talib Quotes
#1. If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Malala Yousafzai
#2. I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.
Husayn Ibn Ali
#3. If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
Lyrically, Talib Kweli
Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
Jay-Z
#4. I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. 'Are you all right, jani?' he said. 'Aba,' I said, trying to reassure him. 'Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.
Malala Yousafzai
#5. A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
Malala Yousafzai
#6. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.
Malala Yousafzai
#7. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
Malala Yousafzai
#8. The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#9. Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
Talib Kweli
#11. So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
Talib Kweli
#12. The most important time in history is - NOW - the present,
So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
Talib Kweli
#15. I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli
#16. A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Talib Kweli
#17. If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
Talib Kweli
#19. 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.
Talib Kweli
#20. Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#21. Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#22. Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
Talib Kweli
#23. I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.
Talib Kweli
#25. I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.
Talib Kweli
#26. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#29. These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
Start blastin' ... now a new cat is executive chief.
Talib Kweli
#30. Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#31. Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#33. You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Talib Kweli
#34. Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#35. Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#36. Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.
Talib Kweli
#37. Associate with people in such a manner that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#39. True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#40. I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
Talib Kweli
#42. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#43. A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#44. What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
Talib Kweli
#45. Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#47. Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
Talib Kweli
#49. Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.
Talib Kweli
#50. Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
Talib Kweli
#51. My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
Talib Kweli
#52. A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#54. Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#55. There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#56. Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#57. Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
Talib Kweli
#58. So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
Talib Kweli
#59. Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
Talib Kweli
#61. Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#63. If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#64. The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#65. Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#66. Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.
Talib Kweli
#67. Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#68. Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#69. My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
Talib Kweli
#70. When I met you it was magic ...
We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
Talib Kweli
#71. I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli
#73. There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
Talib Kweli
#75. Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#76. Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
Talib Kweli
#77. He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#78. The emaan of a person cannot be true until he has more trust in that which is in Allah's Hands than that which is in his own hands.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#79. A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
Talib Kweli
#80. The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#81. Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#82. The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#83. Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#84. Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#85. And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
Talib Kweli
#86. The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
Talib Kweli
#87. Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous
It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce
Talib Kweli
#88. 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. You know, it's me who's doing it.
Talib Kweli
#89. My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
Talib Kweli
#90. Love is blind, you just see bright light
Talib Kweli
#91. O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#92. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#93. We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Talib Kweli
#94. Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#95. Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#96. Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#97. It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#99. If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.
Talib Kweli
