Top 33 Wale Quotes

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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot o

I’m fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples’ dreams.
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold… but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It’s style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
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Everything’s pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There’s a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don’t agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC’s that coming to the game.
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There’s no way you can win when you’re the president; you’ve got to be the scapegoat for America’s issues.
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I feel like I’m one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I’m going to be here for a while.
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I hope everybody thinks they’ve got the best album. I wouldn’t have put mine out if I didn’t think it was the best.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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The first thing that’s important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who’s never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You’re painting pictures of emotions.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore – probably because I do too much of it.
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I’m never satisfied, man. I’m Virgo. We overanalyze and we’re never satisfied. So I’m gonna keep going ’til the wheels fall off.
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I don’t wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I’m at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I’ve given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I’m not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it’s kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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I’ve seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I’ve dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I’ve had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn’t very ignorant because I’ve seen a lot.
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I never understood the idea that I was a ‘backpack rapper.’ I think that’s a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it’s easy to put everything in a box.
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I’m a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there’s a target on me.
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I’d love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I’m going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.
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I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave – Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That’s the smell of beauty that stays on you… and girls love Tom Ford.
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you’re African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you’ll know about that.
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I’ve always been a Nike person.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It’s never a thing where I think I’m too good, I’m just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don’t like to go through the motions.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,’ you’re going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don’t matter. Sue me – I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that’s art. However you look at it, whether you’re an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist – art.
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I can take an opinion, but I don’t like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I’m one of the people that’s always made music for the common man. That’s why I don’t really live my life the way I could. I don’t stunt as much as I could stunt, ’cause that’s not who my music is for.
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I’m a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don’t like it. I’m just chillin’. YouknowwhatI’msayin’?
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Sometimes I’m happy – you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I’m pissed off – you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don’t want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, ‘He’s like a regular person at his job right now who’s mad.’
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I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don’t ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what

The Web is the new way to figure out who’s hot and what’s not. You can’t let TV dictate because it’s so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I don’t want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy’s.
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