“Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.”

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

Nuthin’ can avoid this shot ’cause it’s hittin’ It’s so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.