Quotes About Adversity

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

From the time I made my first recording in 1983, I was already telling cats like Spike, "Nah, I ain't hitting that lick." I was already sliding away from it. Then, after nearly losing my life in the car crash, I really couldn't

the criminal life seduce you. Very few people survive it.

I guess a lot of players got this story to tell No matter how cold you roll you simply cannot win It's always fun in the beginning But pain in the end —ICE, "PAIN

there was nothing but a steep cliff. And all the dudes who were hustling with me, one by one they kept falling off that cliff.

in South Central unexpectedly when I was orphaned at age twelve. I'm originally from New Jersey—born in Newark, raised in a middle-class suburb called Summit. My mother passed suddenly when I was in third grade from a heart attack. My father did his best to raise me on his own for a couple of years, but when I was in seventh

had five straight gold albums—about a ten-year plateau—and then my sales just dropped off a steep fucking cliff. From being able to ship half a million records, suddenly I was only shipping

got a full-time job in there paying me about thirty cents an hour. When I wasn't working in the laundry, I started writing and recording songs. This dude I met had a little cassette recorder, and over the years I recorded something like sixty songs. I studied all the rappers I loved and really

was eligible for a Level II yard, and they had to find a suitable place for me. Corcoran was the place that God intended for me, the place where I could fully embrace and manifest the change I needed to make.

Saying of the Prophet Oppression When oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

Be a tiger — if you are ready for a tiger's problems.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.

Sé un tigre… si estás preparado para los problemas de un tigre.

Beggars and Workers IT IS RELATED of Ibn el-Arabi that people said to him: 'Your circle is composed mainly of beggars, husbandmen and artisans. Can you not find people of intellect who will follow you, so that perhaps more authoritative notice might be taken of your teachings?' He said: 'The Day of Calamity will be infinitely

Quien se duerma en el Camino, perderá el sombrero o la cabeza.

Dicho del Profeta Opresión Cuando existe la opresión, incluso el pájaro muere en su nido

Si no tiene problemas, cómprese una cabra.

En un pueblo donde todos tienen solo una pierna, el bípedo brincará por ahí de la forma más lastimosa si es que sabe lo que le conviene".

The nightingale which cannot bear the thorn, it is best that it should never speak of the rose.