I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

Don't make unimportant things important

We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.