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" All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. "

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" When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in. "

" I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. "

" It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there. "

" No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. "

" Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new. "

" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "

" Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down. "

" Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode. "

" When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. "

" Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. "

" I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission. "

" No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean? "

" I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better. "

" I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life. "

" I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that. "

" Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records. "

" Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people. "

" Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. "

" I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. "

" I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do. "

" I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. "

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. "

" I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. "

" I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up. "

" I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. "

" Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. "

" I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them. "

" Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it. "

" Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you. "