Geronimo Quotes

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

While living I want to live well.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

I was born where there were no enclosures.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It’s right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

I'm just the type of person that realizes that someone is always going to have something to say so I could care less about it.

Be true to yourself and as long as you can look back and be happy with what you've done stay that way.

I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.

Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

Everybody plays their part in this world and not all parts are the same. So I look at it like whatever I was put here to do that's what the outcome is.

God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

I don't regret anything that I ever did. You just look back at things and you either learn from them or get what you can from them but I wouldn't change what I did.

I hope everyone continues to ride with me the way they have done. I could never repay you because each and every one of you changed my life.

I was djing before I was rapping. I was calling myself Mike Geronimo and spelling it like Mike but he was just like spell it M-i-c. I was like that's ill cuz it stands out.

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.

Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about.

Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are.

When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.

I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.

Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.

Life ain't complicated unless you complicate it.

You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.

Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're always going to need people from that golden era.

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

Things happen and you live and you learn.

Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death.

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.