“ONE LOVE, ONE HEART.”

        -Bob Marley

“Free your Mind (head) and the rest will follow.”

"Be anti-DEVILISHMENT and pro-righteousness."

"I CAN SIT ON TOP OF THE WORLD AND TELL ANYONE THAT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NATION IS IN THE WILDERNESS OF NORTH AMERICA. BUT DO NOT LET ME CATCH ANY SISTER OTHER THAN HER OWN SELF, IN REGARDS TO LIVING THE LIFE, AND WEIGHING PROPERLY."

"Seek Knowledge from the cradle to the grave"

"He who gives the diameter of your Knowledge prescribes the circumference of your activity."

        -The Hon. Minister Farrakhan

"Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you in the same way."

        -Nikki Giovanni

"Don't remove the kinks from your HAIR, remove them from your BRAIN!"

        -The Hon. Marcus Garvey

"The Prophets of GOD who saw all the way to the Judgment and end of the present world had to have seen Hip-Hop..."

        -The Hon. Minister Farrakhan

"And whoever is given knowledge is given indeed abundant wealth"

        -HQ 2:269

"I'm here to take away the pain, remake the brain, reveal my name..."

        -Rakim Allah

"Islam is Peace,  I've been through Jehovah's Witnesses, the Baptist church thing. Catholicism couldn't do it… I got into Islam because of a friend of mine who lived across the street. I liked praying and learning. I don't know hardly enough about the Qur’an, but when I say the prayers, I feel Peace."

        -Eve (of Ruff Ryders)

“Most intellects do not believe in GOD, but they fear us just the same."

        -Erykah Badu

 "Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

        -W.E.B. Du Bois

"So the question is, will you accept your responsibility as a leader, and as a teacher, and lead and guide the youth of the world so that the 'elites', the governments of the world, will never make merchandise of young people again and use you to fight unjust wars that enrich the rich and aid in the destruction of the weak and the poor?"

        -The Hon. Minister Farrakhan

"Universal cause I move everyone to come, by exercising your Mind you’ll coincide as One."

        -THE GOD RAKIM ALLAH

"The society says we want the 'rappers' to clean up the lyrics but the society does not want to clean itself up... At the top of society, it is so filthy that you would be shocked to see how low down and filthy people are who are the leaders in society…"

"U must Know Me to Understand Me and once U do, U realize Eye'm U."

        - RZA

"So, you think you can tell, Heaven from Hell"

        - Pink Floyd

"Turntablists are musicians."

        -Jam Master Jay

"You Must have Knowledge of Self:

to know the only one you follow is Self"

        -The GOD Buckshot

"I MC with the mind of a DJ and I DJ with the mind of an MC and B-Boy. I feel the essence of Hip-Hop. It is what I do. It is who I am."

"THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF A MAN IS NOT WHERE HE STANDS IN MOMENTS OF COMFORT
AND CONVENIENCE, BUT WHERE HE STANDS AT TIMES OF CHALLENGE AND CONTROVERSY."

        -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.