If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

My first occupation was to map the country.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.