“Why do you buy [shoddy goods] if you think the quality is so poor?”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“It has been argued that relatively poor people will borrow to buy a house, so why not to buy a degree?”

“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”

“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul”

“"You can't buy love with money." Only a poor person says that.”

“Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear.”

“We didn't starve. We spent wisely. Like I tell people in the ghetto, "If you can buy guns and bullets, why can't you buy food? You can buy heroin and crack cocaine, so why can't you buy bread and butter and milk? Why can't you pay your rent?" There's a lot of people in the ghetto who go out and get a fancy car and all that. The car costs more than their house. Meanwhile, your kids need shoes. That's not cool.”

“If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.”