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"Rapping bout the hood, in the hills is blasphemy, rapping from the hills to the hood is luxury."

"Reservation's mandatory for them to keep out vultures. Portrayed images, makes it hard to get to know us. That's one reason why other cultures don't approve of us, in an ancient world made of star cro…"

"You can burn the bridge with the intent of hurting the merchant but remember in the end only the village suffers."

"Tightly clenched fist don’t catch blessings."

"Marcus Orelias, come with me or get left."

"Silent wars are fought on mental battlefields."

"When I wake up, I gotta cake up and if you owe me a dollar I'm taking no pay cuts."

"Knowing’s a blessing, relaying it is the curse."

"My daddy was a thug; momma was a hippie. Now you got me, product of Bayview-HP"

"No weapon is as dangerous as an idea. A weapon will kill you in that moment. A bad idea can kill you for a lifetime."

"My closing statement to the senate and the council is...youth need art this truth is, not hard to swallow. I see many artistic people wallow in sorrow off belief. They aren't good enough to be. Give u…"

"The only thing holding down my soul is my soles"

"Anytime you travel through life, baggage is apart of the journey. It’s not about not having baggage, it’s about learning to travel lighter and lighter."

"How you see me? Tell me how you see me. When mirrors only reflect what you want to see. Believe me."

"Fear only goes as far as belief."

"I’m hearing stop the violence but that can’t be. As long as we don’t look at ourselves, as a society"

"No harm done – don’t feel harmed, you won’t be. Moving towards living stoically, fought these feelings of inadequacy when I started on this path at eighteen. No looks didn’t vex me, looked within’ and…"

"Officially I've been crowned as Hip-Hop's Historian."

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"If opportunity doesn’t call, call opportunity and keep calling until someone answers."

"The universe will never allow you to fail."

"As influences faces growth, some will want my buzz cut. Growing bolder in my vision but I often feel stuck."

"When it all falls down, it’ll fall into place."

"I have a gift. I am a human alarm clock. I wake people up to themselves. You can hit the snooze and ignore me but eventually, you’ll have to wake up."

"Where are we going? Where are we headed? Because believe me, it isn’t always the police. There’s two sides to every story, three if the truth’s told. In the backseat, headed somewhere unknown. All alo…"

"The phrase “be realistic” used in any form is a micro-aggression."

"Hire someone looking to work, they’ll work for the next check. Hire someone who believes in the work and they’ll work for a lifetime."

"I pressed play then came a long way from the Mac Book / I heard Raginder on “A.D.H.D.” then scribbled him down in my black book / Thinking one day he’d collaborate with a no name, named Marcus O / wit…"

"Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything."

"People will say "there's no money in music", that's not true, there's no money in music to people who aren't educated on how to make money."

"Accountability is mankind’s greatest obstacle. All our challenges stem from that."

"I'm from the city rich desire to live in. Glass on the floor from breaking out of this prison / prism."