“There’s a difference between violence and senseless violence.”

I been the same dude my whole life.

The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.

I’m still the same. That’s why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

I don’t have to be working on an album to record a song.

You can’t call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

I can forgive, I just can’t forget.

I’m a blessing to whoever gets to really know me.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife.

The places that ive been, the things that i have seen – what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.

It’s a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I’ma just do what I do.

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

A lot of artists that I’ve met let me know they’re huge fans of mine.

I’m glad that young black people are successful with the music. I’m not a hater.

I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.

A lot of people, we want a miracle, we want a huge blessing. People will forget that a miracle will only happen on the platform of a tragedy.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.

An older guy, he’s going to show you things that a young man can’t show you. He’s going to show you how to stay alive. He’s going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I’m saying?

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Education should ennable the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.