Quotes by K'naan

K'naan

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

Damn

Knows

Men

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

Aliens

Hip Hop

Hips

I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of “how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn’t do it to gain power or money as I recall,” and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I’m a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

Anxiety

Song

Thinking

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist’s position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that’s between two cultures or two thoughts. We’re always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

Always Trying

Artist

Thinking

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I’m actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

Challenges

People

Struggle

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

Cousin

Gun

School

I think it’s a mistake to work on success in career. I’ve worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

Mistake

Passion

Regret

I wasn’t making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it’s one of the more undervalued positions.

Musician

Planets

Stigma

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.

Feel Better

Feel Good

Giving

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

Authenticity

Know How

Writing

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Always Trying

Anxiety

Arms

Artist

Authenticity

Beautiful

Brother

Challenges

Children

Cousin

Damn

Dark

Dream

Eye

Feel Better

Feel Good

Flags

Freedom

Giving

Goal

Gun

Hard Times

Hip Hop

Hips

Hunting

I Can Do It

Interesting

Justice

Know How

Knows

Leader

Life

Light

Lions

Looks

Mean

Men

Mistake

Musician

Nuclear

Order

Passion

People

Pirate

Planets

Rap

Regret

School

Song

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Quotes by K'naan

K'naan

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

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

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist’s position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that’s between two cultures or two thoughts. We’re always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I’m actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

I think it’s a mistake to work on success in career. I’ve worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

I wasn’t making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it’s one of the more undervalued positions.

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.

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