“It makes sense that if you good in your heart then you closer to God.”

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Don’t live to fight, fight to live.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.

Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close, watch your homies.

Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Just cause you live in the ghetto doesn’t mean you can’t grow.

Even the genius ask questions.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it’s planted in stone.

It’s hard to care when no one loves you.

I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

Don’t believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies.

Cry later, but for now, let’s enjoy the laughter.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal.

I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

It ain’t about black or white ‘cause we human.

I wrote many poems about her and held her so close to my heart that she did not even knew a place there.

You keep me at a distance when all I want to have you is close.

The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

I don’t want to show my body to the ones, who often close their eyes, when it’s time to praise the beauty of my mind and soul.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.