Quotes from Kool Moe Dee

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

As I turned around to receive my injection, I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection.' If I see another girl and I get an erection... I'm walking in the other direction!

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down.

Guns, we don't like to use 'emUnless our enemies choose 'emWe prefer to fight you on like a man andBeat you down with our hands, and bodyslam youAt the wild, wild west.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

Learn your past, find your path.

In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.