When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

...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.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

When I saw something that needed doing I did it.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.