“You can put truth in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.”

I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.

There shouldn’t be any violence in hip-hop. You’re getting free clothes. Basically, it’s free money.

Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.

I been the same dude my whole life.

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

There’s a difference between violence and senseless violence.

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.

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain’t no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.