Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

Access to a school library results in more reading.