They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.

Weird like Murdock, thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face but I'm wild like B.A.

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.

I didn't cut no corners, I just gave it my heart and soul.

My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.

I would never sell my soul, for cars and gold

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.

An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.

When you're indie and you have your hands on yourself and you're not working for someone, you're working with someone and you're dealing with them, it's a totally different feeling involved.

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.