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"99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!)."
"All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you."
"At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man."
"First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other."
"I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out."
"I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap."
"Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there."
"Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain."
"Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama."
"Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."
"The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love."
"The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California."
"Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?"
"I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base."
"I don't sell dope, I sell hope."
"In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
"I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it... I can do it without the dope."
"Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention."
"This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home"
"The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this."
