The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

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

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

I want to hear people say, "Oh, he's matured. He's a grown up now".

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."