A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.

Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.

It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.

Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

I'm just an addict, addicted to music Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.

So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents

I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

You can't control who your family is. I know about that. You can only pick good friends and maybe that's a better family.

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.

After thirty a body has a mind of its own.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.