Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind, And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.