I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

I don't believe on them…but I am positive they exist.

You are the slave of your mind!

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

God Never Compares You To Anyone Else. He Loves You As You Are.

Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m going to be the one doing to it.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.