Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Truth does not need publicity, lies do.

There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.

Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

anger and jeaously are first cousins!

You have to do your thing no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.