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" I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. "

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" I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery. "

" The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. "

" I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. "

" The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. "

" I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning. "

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

" I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that. "

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

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

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

" Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. "

" 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life. "

" I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop. "

" 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. "

" 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back. "

" Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight. "

" When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend. "

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

" DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. "

" Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. "

" The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. "

" Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. "