Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.