I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.

I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.