I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.