Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.