Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path.

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians

Water flows because it's willing.

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

I went to the airport, I put my bag in the x-ray machine, I found out my bag has cancer. It only has six more months to hold stuff.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.