If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue. It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me, But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me, ' an' He always did.

Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Sebastos Eudorus Parthenopaeus. He is really going to hate us when he has to learn to spell all that.” – Acheron