I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

Most of what is now “bitter” for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

It is terrible to be an unprotected being.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.