If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.