So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear yaTwo times for the k — Danny!

"And as the mouthpieceOf every single citizen without peaceDirection and leadershipIma spit it til your ears cant believe this shitWe got weapons of mass destruction, and we is it"

"[Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have to understand, this stardom thing is still new to me, I dont even consider myself "famous". Its 2008: if you have a blog, a mixtape and two pairs of skinny jeans you, too, can be famous."

"Tribe purist to the fullestIfn you aint feelin this track, then youre full of itPull that lil shit if you wanna, ya digBut you aint gonna do me like you did those Kidz, and clown meHomage, comma, propsCall it what you want, but Im not gonna stopRecord hit the store and Im not gonna flopAnd if I do, well then its fodder for the message boards tomorrow"

"You mad at the last album, I apologize for itYo, I cant call it, man muhfuckin Wyclef spoiled it"

"But she just stood there, scared that I might snapI looked in her eyes and there were years of disappointment starin right backAnd I was scared too, scared of what she would sayBut I was embarassed like I, like I sat through three Madea playsBefore she walked away, Misery stoppedAnd she said look at your music career, youre in the same spotNah, I said, dont even try meBecause you used to stand beside meBut I moved so far ahead youre ninety feet behind me"

"I, once was retired but hes sort of backHavent been the same since Uncle L sneezed on a track(Heee-shay!) Im bout to throw some Ds on the LacSike...my guest appearances is cheese for the ratsPease porridge hot? Nah nigga, pease porridge blackPlease pour a batch of Singaporan tea, more than thatYall gon need some bigger cups if you fuckin with me and NaledgeEven college was a hustle to him, like me at ClaflinWe is laughin at the competition deviouslySo much accomplished, Wikipedias peeved"

"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."

"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."

"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"