Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live