RZA Quotes

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

After knowledge comes wisdom. After wisdom comes understanding.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.

You get nothing but the truth from me.

That's the beauty of love. Sometimes you don't have to say nothing.

Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself

You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.

In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people are so far from themselves that they don't believe themselves.

Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon, ninjas scalin' your building, No time to grab the gun, I already got your wife and children

The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.

We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.

Through great input you get great output.

The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.

I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do.

When I started emceein', you had 500 maybe 1000 rappers in the whole world. Now there's 1.000.000, nahmean?

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.

Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

Sometimes brothers are in war with each other, but at the end love conquers all.

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

Feeling mad hostile, wearing Aéropostale, Flowing like Christ when I speaks the gospel.

What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.

My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

All I know is what I am getting.

This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!

When you are young "money" is not the same.

Cats be talkin', "Bobby I ain't feelin' ya." But I bet if I was peelin' your cap back with a two-shot Dillinger Hot lead released from my cylinder, You'd be talkin' 'bout, "Bobby I'm feelin' ya!"

I make a lot of money in my life, 50.000 dollars are nothing.

Wayne is definitely one of the top five MCs to ever come out of the South.

I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.

I can't say unfortunately but sadly - I've got babies in more than one household.

If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation!

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.