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Quotes from The Notorious B.I.G.

How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Everything was happening on that strip of Fulton Street. And if I wanted Chinese food, if I wanted to play video games, if I wanted pizza, if I had to go to the corner story for a juice, I had to go on Fulton Street.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I'm not a security-type person, I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that. Now we just chill in the house. There are a lot of times when we want to go out, but we just don't.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Mo' money, mo' problems.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Please don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
We can't change the world until we change ourselves.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Climb the ladder to success escalator style
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I can't even say Puff and me are like brothers, 'cause we closer than that.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
You gotta mature, you know.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.