Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

A real life doesn't ask you to stop and move back it always says Move On

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

He who sling mud, lose ground.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.