We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and cho….

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind..

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone l….

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal….

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story..

Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners ….

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a….

I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had the….

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice.

Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marc….

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhy….

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive.

[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let lo….

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly..

We change people through conversation, not through censorship..

May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's.

What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discr….

For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At th….

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time..

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you..

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, t….