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"I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that."
"Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self."
"You learn more in failure than you ever do in success"
"Without the work, the magic won’t come."
"Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive"
"I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me."
"Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends."
"You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self."
"You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever."
"I'd rather die enormous than live dormant."
"May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's"
"You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever."
"Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out."
"I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are."
"When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down."
"They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am."
"I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me"
"No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn."
"If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since."
"Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky."