I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

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 love eggs fried over medium.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful?

To wake up each morning is a miracle.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Getting it done is my reward.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.