Eminem Quotes

“Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.”

“When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”

“All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.”

“You know, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I'm kind of a big deal.”

“You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.”

“You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.”

“I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.”

“They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.”

“Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.”

“The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.”

“Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.”

“I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.”

“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.”

“So many lives I touch, so much anger.”

“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”

“I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.”

“You gotta live it to feel it,you didn't you wouldn'tget it.”

“I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.”

“I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'”

“In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”

“You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.”

“Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.”

“If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.”

“I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.”

“Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful”