Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.

“Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?” -Tupac Shakur

“We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart.”

“Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize, real lies.”

“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

“It don’t stop ’til the casket drop.”

“I don’t want it if it’s that easy.”

“I know what good morals are, but you’re supposed to disregard good morals when you’re living in a crazy, bad world. If you’re in hell, how can you live like an angel? You’re surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That’s like suicide.”

“Unconditional love. Talking bout the stuff that don’t wear off, it don’t fade. It’ll last for all these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I’ma still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love.”

“This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.”

So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

“Ain’t a woman alive that can take my momma’s place.”

“I know death follows me, but I murder him first.”

“I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”

“Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end, no matter how hard we fight.”

“What people do for the struggle of power is madness.”

“They got money for the war but can’t feed the poor.”

“Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”

“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn’t glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.”

“I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”

“If you could walk a mile in my shoes you’d be crazy too.”

“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”

“I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.”