Naan Quotes

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

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself. — K'naan

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

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

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak. — K'naan

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

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. — K'naan

Actor Nani feels at home in Chennai, especially after the blockbuster Naan Ee. The — Anonymous

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

Holly, there's a raccoon on the back deck." "Really? What's it doing?" "Eating tika masala and naan. — David Thorne

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

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. — K'naan

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

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

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

On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic. — Maisie Williams

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

When I get older, I will be stronger — K'naan

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

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all ... — K'naan

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

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. — K'naan

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. — K'naan