I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue. It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me, But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.