“You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.”

Nobody got your back like you do remember that.

I have three kids, and that’s a big part of staying focused.

I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I’m just trying to show people that I ain’t gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

Niggas want to kill me and y’all still wit em and y’all chill wit em and y’all wonder why we not friends.

I use the studio as my drug. That’s where I relieve everything at – the studio.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

We made the impossible possible if we do a deluxe baby we gotta put Nicki on it.

I was so focus on making sure everybody else was happy I lost track of my own feelings.

There’s definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago, but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you’re Number One, say it.

When I began to rap, I wasn’t taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it’s getting serious.

I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I’ll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I’ll see a picture and think, ‘Crap, I had no idea that’s what I was looking like.’