These quotes were just some of my favorite gems Mos Def dropped in his interview with Ebro in the morning. If you have an hour I highly encourage you to watch it. (link attached below)
On the current state of the world
“It’s not all doom and gloom. If you watch the news or the popular media as a primary source of information, your world view might be very fear-based…there’s a certain level of fear that the system needs to keep inside of people to keep them participating in a certain type of way. The first response to fear is the cathartic expression of consumerism.”
“The world ain’t gonna wait on America to get it together.”
On people
“What do you value? What’s a real priority to you?”
On money
“The focus is not on being rich. It’s less of a focus on money and more of a quality of life…it’s not at the center of their life [the Europeans]. Its a means for them to enjoy their life and primarily time with family and friends…more concerned spending time doing things that they care about with people they care about.”
“At the end of the day even if it is a big bag of money at the end…what people don’t realize is that when you spending your time in a way that you really don’t respect and even if you get money out of it…you’ll fuck up that money…cause you feel the urge and impulse to reward yourself and get some pleasure…you don’t treat the bag with respect.”
“Every dolla ain’t a good dolla.”