B. J. Cole Quotes

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

My goal is to have that be a haven for families.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep.

There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

There is a high cost for low living.

The monsters are in your own head

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

I need to live up to my potential, wherever that may be, in all aspects of my life. My head gets in the way, and I need to look at the big picture - that this is the best, and I am living my dream.

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.