The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.

Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

Ketchup I'm hot, dog Frankfurters, you're Nathan But relish hatin'

Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

Religion is most often a curse

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.