I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.

If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

Even through the unseen, I know that God watches, From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack, And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.

God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.

This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

All that glisters is not gold.