Deep rap quotes & wisdom: Page 2

Life's the biggest troll, but the joke is on us

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

We came to this country

We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys

There was empires in Africa called Kush

Timbuktu, where every race came to get books

How you gonna win when you ain't right within? (Be men)

I keep an eye on heaven and a ear to the street

Too much shine can dull the soul

If you wanna make change, it's gon' take commitment

Some people enslaved by they religion

Can't emancipate them from the mental prisons

I don't make music to make people feel comfortable or reaffirm all the things that they already thought

If you listen to a whole album and never had to question one of your beliefs or your opinions about the world, or yourself, then you weren't really listening

When you know the law, you’re above the law. When you break the law, you’re under the law.

Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring

Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream

Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.

Pray the real live forever, man

Pray the fakes get exposed

Like keep grindin', boy, your life can change in one year

And even when it's dark out, the sun is shinin' somewhere

Nobody's invincible, no plan is foolproof

We all must meet our moment of truth

You was listening to your coaches

I was listening to the vultures

Fear is stronger than love, remember that.

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march?

I know Obama would but would Hilary take part?

Life taught me a lot

That you ain't gotta carry no gun to get shot

A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness, and his health

Men do what they want, boys do what they can

When time pulls lives apart

Hold your own

When everything is fluid, nothing can be known with any certainty

Hold your own

I'm a part of the problem, my problem is I'm peaceful

And I believe in the people, yeah

He sat me on the porch, said, "This where little dogs sit"

Pointed at the yard (yard), said, "That's where big dogs shit" (shit)

Oddly enough, I'm happy I ain't famous

Imagine waking up to the fact that you're simply entertainment

I bet God thinks you're amusing

On the oak tree, I hope we feel like this forever

Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?

Forever never seems that long until you're grown

I know that money come and go so money not my motive no mo’

I made enough to know I'll never make enough for my soul

It's a small world, so you better guard your secrets

And it's easy to get money, but it's hard to keep it

Bitch, real G's move in silence like lasagna

I helped the game, it ain't help me

See I kept it so real, I ain't keep it real with myself

when you get success and you get fame and money, it makes you be you times ten.

College was a plan of mine until I seen them fees

Everything I ever needed, I done learned out on them streets

Uh, people love to talk about the money that they make

Nobody wanna talk about the money that they save

Standing back from situations gives you the perfect view

Happiness, the brand, is not happiness

We are smarter than they think we are

They take us all for idiots, but that's their problem

When we behave like idiots, it becomes our problem

The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you

I never let a statue tell me how nice I am

Boys on the block told boys on the spot

You gotta a shot youngin’, you ain't gotta get shot

Dangerous to measure a man by the size of his cock

I was told to measure a King by the size of his flock

Don’t listen to the people on the sidelines. Pay attention to the actual players.

The books that take you to heaven and let you meet the Lord there

Have become misinterpretated reasons for warfare

Reread them with blind eyes, I guarantee you there's more there

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue

Think you on top of the world but the world on top of you

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee

I hate when you lie, I hate the truth too

Institutionalized

I live my life a product made to crumble

Much too hardened for a smile, way too crazy to be humble

My only fear is fear itself

I ain't afraid to die, more afraid of myself

it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with an enemy. It is your duty to fortify your own house, so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organization.

"If you bring forth what is within you

What you bring forth will save you

But if you do not bring forth what is within you

What you do not bring forth will destroy you"

We write songs about wrong 'cause it's hard to see right

Every day the sun won't shine, but that's why I love tomorrows

Your strongest enemies the one who know ya weak spot

I done got rich and it cursed me

Because once you get in the mirror and you start finding shit that you do like about yourself, you’re going to stay in the motherfucking mirror trying to perfect that.

If keeping it real is a sin, you better pray for this

Truth is, we mess up 'til we get it right

Always worried 'bout the critics who ain't ever fuckin' did it

I write what's in my heart, don't give a fuck who fuckin' with it

And I'm so high, it's so lonely up here (Lonely up here)

Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end.

When my grandma died I realized I got an angel

Show me everything's a blessing dependin' on the angles

But over here, everybody wanna be better than the next one…They might be fucked up, money-wise, but trust me, them muthafuckas is happy, man. Them niggas in harmony ‘cause they got each other.

Gotta take the good with the bad, smile with the sad

Love what you got and remember what you had