“Mark you for death, won’t even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain’t where ya from, it’s where’s your gat.”

Never we sleep, a thug doesn’t rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

I’m mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I’m not just a rapper now, I’m in history now.

I’m a living abortion.

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

It’s my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

…in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn’t do diddily

There’s no longevity, living off of negativity.

I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.

Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.

The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality.

D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

If you want to go east, don’t go west.