Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right

Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

Most things that are politically right are morally wrong

The point of Islam is to promote peace.

Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

The biggest terrorist is Obama.

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.

I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

If you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.