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

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.

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.

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.

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.

So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that’s part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth.

Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they’ll figure out I’ve got millions, but hopefully they’ll have the values to say, ‘So what?

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren’t good. Drinking’s not good. Some would say milk’s not good.

What’s changed? I’m a dad. That’s fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit.

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing.