Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

Think about the eternal consequence of your actions

This isn't a war, " said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding...

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.

Never trust a second thought. Where there is two there is three. You will end up thinking forever.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.