...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.

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

Knowledge is the most prized commodity in the entire universe, and it is infinite in its commodity.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

I'm probably a bit too wordy for some people.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.