Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.

Gentlemen, this is the football.