Quotes About Influence

What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.

Money can be detrimental for kids.

Greatest Detroit MC... Eminem.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.

I knew how to be a voice for L.A., I knew how to be a voice for Detroit, I knew how to be a voice for London, I knew how to be a voice for Amsterdam.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

The devil made me do it.

I've never seen the devil create music.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

Marketing is the devil.

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

Colin Powell devoted himself to the betterment of this country and of every American in all that he did. His legacy and character is one we must remember, and one that we should each seek to emulate in all that we do.

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

My brother, he love the diamonds, and he really got me into diamonds.

Who's more important than Diana Ross?

Diana Ross... she's the bomb.

I never really saw my mom as Diana Ross. My mom was my mom.

I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.

Dickens belongs to the English people.