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

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

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

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.

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.

What is it?”“You have to promise you'll never leave me.”“Okay.”Jordan grinned, delighted at her easy agreement.

Did I miss the part where we were in a relationship?

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

Hard times define one's character.

Inspiration is the crèche of your brainchildren. If you don’t feed them, they will die, and never come back. So someone please think about the children!

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.