Nas Quotes - Page 5

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy.

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul, Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style. Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes, Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.