The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.