Activist Quotes

“To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.”

“I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.”

“I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.”

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.”

“They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.”

“Be grateful for blessings,Don't ever change, keep your essence.The power is in the people and politics we address.”

“You either ride with us, or collide with us.”

“Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.”

“One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.”

“We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.”

“Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.”

“I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.”

“Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt”

“Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.”

“Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.”

“Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.”

“I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.”

“Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.”

“But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let upForgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up”

“Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.”

“If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.”

“The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.”

“God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.We try to cry, but still they all die,I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.”

“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”

“Tomorrow comes after the dark”