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It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark
In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom, just like a Wavin' Flag

When I get older, I will be stronger

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly
Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all ...

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.