I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.

We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.

I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like and what I can.

Never say can't, its better to try

And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.

You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm only here For that green paper which lead you

Better believe that, whenever I see y'all I'ma test ya Only cause I know that faggots respect pressure

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

Who have you chosen to become?

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.

It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.