Rakim Quotes

It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.

Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.

Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.

I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

I'm just an addict, addicted to music Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it.

When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet.

I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train, pickin at her brain, I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name. I said, "I still like your style and fashion, But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion. Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot? Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?" She turned away, no play, I said, "OK, You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."

The mind is one of Allah's best designs.

Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme

Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.

I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

Now life is imitating art.

Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are small as balls of clay Astray into the Milky Way, world's outasight Far as the eye can see, not even a satellite Now stop and turn around and look As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took! So keep starin' soon you suddenly see a star You better follow it, cause it's the R.

I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.

Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being symbolic to the sun, that's what keeps me going, that's like my hunger. That's like my fury, my self esteem. That's the elements within me that keep my body motionable. The fire is self esteem. Inner strength.

Everything derives from the mind. From sex to the way you want people to perceive you to anything in life, it all derives from the mind. If people start realizing this and get deeper into themselves they'll realize there's nothing that they can't do.

It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

The physical was never the best part of the body.