When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one.

Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.