Lupe Fiasco Quotes

“Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person…Yourself.”

“Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts,
if you think that hurts then wait here comes the upper-cut,
the school was garbage in the first place that's on the up and up.”

“Made me a ripper, deliver like a river, content a little more thicker, slicker…and they said
oil and water don't mix, now they all down at the beach washing off the fish.”

“My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?" "Yes?" "With all that knowledge, You aint trying to go to college? Be a lawyer or a doctor, Get a whole lotta dollars? Rather degrade women and glorify violence?" "Well the work that works for me might not work for you No homework, I got work to do."”

“The truth.. is limitless in its range, If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it could hurt”

“I love my city really hope that God bless it, have my mind moving faster than that Hog in the Hedges”

“To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.”

“Some will love you. Some will hate you. Most won't care about you either way. This world is all Good vs. Evil. And I fight evil.”

“I only fear God, know the weapons of the weak, the weakness of the heart, and never fall asleep…”

“For we all are sinners. Bless us to be amongst the winners when it ends. But until then please strengthen the mission within our hearts. All praise is due to God”

“I used to hate hip-hop, because the women degraded. But Too Short made me laugh,
like a hypocrite I played it; a hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
omitting the word b*tch, cursing I wouldn't say it. Me and dog couldn't relate, until a b*tch I dated.”

“Gangsta rap-based filmings became the buildin blocks
For children with leakin ceilings catchin drippins with pots
Coupled with compositions from Pac, Nas's "It Was Written"
In the mix with my realities and feelings
Living conditions, religion, ignorant wisdom and artistic vision
I began to jot, tap the world and listen,”

“Consider power as NOT getting people to obey you, but getting people to work in harmony with you with the goal being mutual benefit.”

“I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it.”

“My most coveted thing is a high self-esteem, and a low tolerance for them telling me how to lean,
see the most important parts are the ones that are unseen, cause the wings don't make you fly
and the crown don't make you king”

“And so it seems that I'm, sewing jeans. And, 1st and 15 is just a sewing machine. So I,
cut the pattern and I, sew in seams. And, button in this hustling then publically, I'm
Buddy Lee. There's no bustin' them and cuffin' them is like. Ushering in the regime, they want
me to make Prince pants. But I withstand, I ain't gotten into that. A little big (B. I. G.) in the
waist, two-pocket (Tupac-it) on the back. Call them Lu-vi's, O. G.'s covered in blue dye”

“We all KNOW better, but do we actually DO better?”

“In darkness is where we truly find ourselves, in light we only find others and in others you cannot find yourself.”

“We all trying to get to where the suffering ends. In front of the Most High, being judged for our sins. Can't front for the Most High.”

“To gain a better understanding, I'm just trying to make it real/reel. Like a fisherman,
Pon De River fam. I Pon My Bank, deposit my thoughts. Till my mind draws a blank
and I withdraw from checking. I'll leave that with ya'll for a second…”

“The fear that rules us comes NOT from the outside but from within. Mastering self-control also means stripping the rulers of a prized weapon.”

“Jay gave me a co-sign like I was RocaWear, but be clear I'm not the air/heir
I'm the water, fire and the earth
That means I'm doing dirt, spitting flames and quenching thirst”

“Flowers she would pick like guitar strings, for a real good whiff of how how life behind par seems.”

“Rap records pressured to laugh, at a life not fast.”

“Separate wealth from value. All living things have value. We impart this value upon lifeless things to give them worth not vice versa.”

“Heavy problems genocide desensitized environments
Sometimes make it hard to sympathize, pardon”

“A match made in Heaven, set the fires in Hell”

“Never apologize for being real…ever. Reality is the enemy of fakes, frauds, liars and protectors of ignorance. It scares them.”

“Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like. Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type”

“Fear and Sex are the two most effective weapons that are used against the people. Tempering desire motivates liberation.”

“Greed redefined and corrupted what true power is. Domination is for the weak, Harmony is the true sign of strength.”

“A definition of ignorance is not KNOWING what we DO & improvement is handicapped when we don't DO what we KNOW.”

“Didn't have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers, raiders of the villages, the
pillagers of the school…. shooters of the innocents, tortures of the witnesses, burners
of the businesses.. and my bracelet was the fuel.”

“The future's cloudy and it's rainin on the poor class.
Road to peace is closed, heavy traffic on the war paths”

“If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping.
Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?”

“I'm not a prophet but Fahrenheit 1/15 is being quoted by preachers. Far from being a leader but I'm still being invited by teachers.”

“Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
All the world's ills, sittin' on chrome 24-inch wheels”

“But don't forget the blessing is in the struggle. The Most Forgiving will forgive it if you stay repentant and hustle.”

“So tell my enemies that they can’t injure me, I know that irritates, you have my sympathies.”

“If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that’s success. You define that as success, then that’s success. Success is not a general thing. It’s a personal thing. It’s a personal attribute.”