Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

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

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

I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.

I come from a background of independent films.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.