I dont care what you do fo you respect, but i would die for mine

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.

Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks.

There's a wide variety of demographics for fans of T.I. now, that you have to do something to satisfy everyone.

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.

I got most of my style from people around me who I knew personally.

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.

If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.

We can't fix what we do not address.

Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

I promote peace and positivity.

This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself.

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.

I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.

You aint gotta be a dope boy to have money.

People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then.

People are motivated when they see somebody else doing something.

I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I stand

The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.

All the hatin just fuels to my fire.

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.

We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.

Let the losers worry about losin.

I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.

You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

If you're not worth speaking on, then you haven't adequately done your job.

Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional

Nobody is gonna love you like you.

God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.

If you don't respect nothin' else, you will respect this hustle.

Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.