If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence

She loves mysteries that she became one.

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.