You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

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.

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

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.

What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!

There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.