Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

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

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.