I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

You make me feel like a stronger person and I can’t imagine a life without you in it. I need to be where you are.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

I didn't even go to graduation.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.