The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just as good. It's just that everything out of the U.S. proclaims to be the best, especially L.A. and New York, being that they're the nerve centers and media capitals of the most predominantly media-emitting country in the world.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes, 'cause you are totally against the existence of somebody who should live their life as an equal human being. If not, any man knows, it's like we're not equal. You know, women are usually a little better than us.

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.