“If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn’t. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it’s wrong.”

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

It’s an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It’s a touch, it’s a feel. Once you feel it, it’s like no other thing in the world.

Love goes unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it.

If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.

When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn’t shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That’s not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

A lot of people don’t know that I love to love. To have a different kind of mask on me where people feel like I’m not a loving individual. I just love to love, I love everything and everybody, I’m about peace that’s my spirit.

You won’t hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg – unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

Do what you feel is right, baby.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it’s time.

Don’t get upset girl, that’s how it goes. I don’t love you hoes, I’m out the door.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion. Women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand.

A lot of people like to fool you and say that you’re not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That’s what I learned from selling crack.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it.

If you’re lazy, don’t expect much in terms of success. You’re owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It’s earned.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

I’m tired of being what you want me to be, feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don’t know what you’re expecting of me, put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.