Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns.

Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.

I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.

Shawn Carter is nice, but Sean Price is the best.

Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk? It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.

I can't see myself not rappin' and not talking the bullshit I'm talking. I love that! I can't lie. Once I stop I'm just going to stop all the way.

Everyone's always like, "Why don't you guys wear white ties?" You know why we don't? It's because they're in the wash.

The Mother of Ignorance is always pregnant. But at Sean Price house, the b**ch have twins!

Drink, ” he commanded, seeing the look of hunger, of passion, in the boy’s eyes. The intensity of his blood had awoken the predatory fire that lay within all men.

In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain . . . Without God’s guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

I knew I needed a partner. I needed someone who could focus on and spearhead the business side of things, and [Neal Dodson] was great at that. That's how it started.