Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Every day something inside us dies because we do not have the courage to follow our dreams

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.