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I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted — Nas

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. — Nas

What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin
War gets deep, some beef is everlastin — Nas

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book. — Nas

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me. — Nas

I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging. — Nas

Dogs live longer than rappers. — Nas

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners — Nas

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow — Nas

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers — Nas

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. — Nas

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous. — Nas

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words. — Nas

How can you lose when you're doing you? — Nas

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy ... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest. — Nas

What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major. — Nas

Let the music diffuse all the tension. — Nas

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too. — Nas

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. — Nas

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me. — Nas

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic ... but we don't sound alike — Nas

Some seek fame cause they need validation,
Some say hating is confused admiration. — Nas

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers. — Nas

Nas is the only person whose concert I been to. — DMX

But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up — Nas

Play it cool, that's the old school rule man ... — Nas

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them. — Nas

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw — Nas

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though. — Nas

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario. — Lykke Li

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. — Nas

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart. — Nas

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold
I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe ... — Nas

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Nas

All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. — Nas

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh. — Nas

Every great person educates themselves. — Nas

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work — Nas

Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. — Nas

Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did. — Nas

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses. — Nas

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it. — Nas

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane — Nas

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. — Nas

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes — Nas

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5. — Yara Shahidi

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. — Nas

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin — Nas

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. — Nas

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. — Nas

Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost, — Nas

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that. — Nas

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing. — Nas

Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you. — Nas

Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever. — Nas

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. — Nas

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her. — Nas

I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game — Nas

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up. — Nas

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. — Nas

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity,
Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy — Nas

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you — Nas

So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes. — Nas

To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. — Nas

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery. — Nas

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts — Nas

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. — Nas

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at. — Nas

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. — Nas

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business — Nas

No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean? — Nas

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. — Nas

I can't control what people think. They know who I am. — Nas

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal. — Nas

My weapon of choice is my voice. — Nas

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission. — Nas

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. — Nas

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. — Nas

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal,
When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal. — Nas

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind — Nas

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game — Nas

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. — Nas

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do. — Nas

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
Not the biased truth,
Not the liest truth,
But the highest truth. — Nas

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York. — Nas

Vocabulary spills I'm ill. — Nas

Props is a true thug's wife. — Nas

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world. — Nas

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down — Nas

Always observe, watch, and talk to older people. — Nas

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. — Nas

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun ... — Nas

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own — Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that ... — Nas

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up. — Nas

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. — Nas

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow? — Nas

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time — Nas

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. — Nas

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. — Nas