My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.
MR. TI had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‘One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.’ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.
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When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains.
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Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.
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I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‘I’ve beaten it. You can, too.’
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Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
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I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.
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All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‘Rocky,’ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.
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Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
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WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.
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I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.
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I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
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They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.
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I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
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I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.
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When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.
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