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" I live a very satisfying life. Not because I've made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that's the American dream: to be at peace at home. "

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" I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, 'Well he did this; he did that.' "

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" The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. "

" Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. "

" As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it. "

" I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent. "

" To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure. "

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" When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown. "

" When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it. "

" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "

" I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. "

" An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art. "

" I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy. "

" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "

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" The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator and the days to deal with diplomacy and democracy. Every great leader should know that, even a dictator. Tyrants get overthrown. "

" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "

" You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad. "

" The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities. "

" I don't have the same respect for time as most people. I take that extra day to think about it. "

" When Def Jam wanted to sign Method Man, they wanted to sign Method Man and Old Dirty. And Old Dirty wanted to be on Def Jam - everybody, that was like the dream label. But if I had Old Dirty and Method Man on Def Jam, that's two key pieces going in the same direction, whereas there's other labels that needed to be infiltrated. "

" Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don't leave your projects too much. The laundry's there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me. "

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" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "

" If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop. "

" If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them. "

" I was definitely a big Run-DMC fan. "

" Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. "

" I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan. "

" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "

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" Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him. "

" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "

" You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life. "