Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!