You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.