Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

Fresh dress, like a million bucks, Put on the bally shoes and the fly green socks

We need realism to deal with reality.

Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

Next thing you know, the hoe starts to ill, She says "I love you, Harold" and your name is Will!

Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?

Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.