"Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction." ― Talib Kweli Topic(s): Politics More From Talib Kweli "I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question." "The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it’s like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it’ll be a hip-hop song. That’s the only music you can do that with." "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." More In Politics "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."― Ambrose Bierce "It’s very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative."― John Bolton "I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision."― Haruki Murakami