I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.

Don't make decisions based on the fear.

Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.