“When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.”

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Pitching always beats batting – and vice-versa.

Nothing beats that sibling love.

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.