Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

It is impossible for an uneducated man to rebel.

You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.

When I see joggers go by I shout "Jim Fixx is dead. Fats Domino lives!"

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.