In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

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.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

We are all fit for better things than we ever do

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

Life is like a box of cookies.

I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.