I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

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.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

Redesign, renew, and recharge your brand.” Decide what value you bring to others and give it.

You can never plan the future by the past.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.