Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack.

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

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Being grounded in your lifelong culture and your personal perspective, you are comfortable with the way you see things and may believe it is the best and only way.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

Freedom does not mean license.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.

How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.