No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.