Does freedom have a meaning if you're trapped in your ways?

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.

I'm not afraid to admit my weaknesses.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow.

You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.