My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart.

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

Tie love and loyalty around your neck.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere