It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.