“Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.”

I’m here to impress only one man. He don’t live here with us. He’s on top. So that’s all I’m concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person.

You don’t know where you goin unless you know where you come from.

Like Ice Cube asks, “Why are more niggers in the pen than in college?” It’s easier to go to the pen than it is to go to college.

That’s why I’m so successful because peace is my main thing, it’s not about money. It’s about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.

An older guy, he’s going to show you things that a young man can’t show you. He’s going to show you how to stay alive. He’s going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I’m saying?

I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive. Lollipops and Big Macs.

Now people think it’s cool to have a baby, but it ain’t cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That’s the future.

If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn’t. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it’s wrong.

If you’re trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you’re going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain’t gonna let that chance go by. That’s the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass.

Drop it like it’s hot.

Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place.

I move with the time. Whatever’s happening in time, I’m in.

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

You don’t love me, you just love my doggystyle.

I’m not rapping, I’m conversing. It’s just a conversation between me and you.

You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

We can’t control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.