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" I tell my sons, I say, if you're going somewhere, you don't have to wear a hoodie - we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. "

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

" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "

" As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie. "

" I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently. "

" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "

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" When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves. "

" 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. "

" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "

" My wife and I go to movies every Wednesday. "

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" While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want. "

" Wisdom is important in every man's life. "

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

" If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people. "

" 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. "

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" Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it. "

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" The black community has for a long time been a part of the Hollywood community, and of course we would love to have a more proportionate ratio of films that tell our stories. "

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" Everybody wants to be a good fighter. "