"Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you."
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"You can't teach others if you are living the same way."
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"I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there."
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"I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper."
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"I don't know karate, but I know crazy."
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"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."
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"This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs."
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"Thank God for the journey."
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"You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else."
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"My expectations of other people, I double them on myself."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience."
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"Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days."
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"Our silence is deafening and deadly."
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"Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer."
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"I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it."
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"I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more."
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"It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it."
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"I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference."
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"I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash."
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"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!"
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