Quotes About Resilience

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

If that was the case, I had to accept it. I had to trust my mother's words: God will get you out in His time.

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.

No longer a jewel thief; once again my mama's son.

THE FALL No matter how high I climbed, Somehow I always fell

survival mode. I was already thinking, Okay, what's next?

150,000. When I first realized it was happening, I took it personally, but that feeling lasted maybe two months. I noticed that it was the same story for Public Enemy, EPMD, Eric B. & Rakim. All these artists I respected were no longer selling like they used to. I said, "Okay, there's a paradigm shift going on.

hustle for a youngster. But one day, the weather turned cold and nobody bought any Kool-Aid. My pops came home and said, "How'd you do today?" "It got cold—I didn't sell anything." "Well, if they ain't buying Kool-Aid, sell 'em cookies." He wasn't trying to give me a sweeping life lesson,

Don't let trends in the market affect your hustle. As the game changes, you need to move and adapt. If the market suddenly switches up on you, don't get stuck—pivot. In 1999, I got offered the chance to guest star on Law

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

so long since my last stint in college, but my aptitude for academics came back to me quickly.

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

TÚ quieta, aunque el trapecio todavía se mueva y te delate.

freedom is not given... it's taken.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

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

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Patience is a garment which has never worn out.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

Saying of the Prophet Anger You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.