I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

You just need the freedom to dream big and a whole lot of hard work.

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.