My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.