Immortal Technique Quotes

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.

The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.

Read between the lines and free your mind

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.

Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done.

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.

You can not change the past but you can change the future.

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.

Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.