Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Oh, my goodness, ” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.

Thanks God for his blood, and his amazing gift of sending his son. Who has made me strong in Christ Jesus, when heaven and earth pass away, Jesus will be the only thing that remains.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do, " Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.