“Nuthin’ can avoid this shot ’cause it’s hittin’ It’s so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten”

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

Change is actually what you need to avoid.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.