Quotes from Bushwick Bill

My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.

I still feel the pain from the fact I've got a bullet in my brain.

I kept watching all the different 'Child's Play' sagas, right? Then all of a sudden I decided, 'He's short, I'm short. What a better concept?' It fits. If I can't make the song, why make the movies?

I'm not trying to write raps for people in three-piece suits sitting behind big oak desks. I'm writing for people who can't speak for themselves and about things we see every day.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

They have horror stuff in the Bible. Like if you were to read Deuteronomy 28, that talks about the blessings and curses of God.

I still believe there's going to be peace at last - but not until Jesus Christ returns. Until then, Armageddon is in full effect, and we have to work on preserving ourselves instead of destroying ourselves.

We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

I want to let all black women know I have no disrespect toward them at all.

The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.

I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.

Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

I just want people to be aware so that when they set dreams or goals, they're healthy enough to fulfill and live.

It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.

We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.

I understand witchcraft being from the islands. You can't be from the Caribbeans and say that you don't know voodoo or don't know about it. Or that you don't know someone who has practiced it. It's just that in my family we never did. People in extreme impoverished situations if they ain't reaching out to God, they reaching out to the other side.

I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.

I am a goofy person at heart.

Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want nobody to pick me up, they can't. They'll catch a hernia trying.

I really like Kendrick Lamar. I'm still a Talib Kweli fan, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Common Sense - people who say things that are relevant to everyday life. I don't pay attention to artists that talk about throwing money away and the car that they drive.

After I saw 'The Exorcist' it took me a while before I could fall asleep - that girl's head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!

Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they've been through, what they've been able to familiarize themselves with.

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. Straight up like that.

We'd rather be hated for what we are than loved for what we're not.