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Cooked up during March 2003

"Now that I've won a Grammy, maybe everyone will stop comparing me to Aaliyah..."
- Ashanti (rearranged spells hi satan aka the antichrist) (shaken in by Chucktown Chica)

"No man can reveal to you but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. - Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (shaken in by jirzygurl)

"My rhyme is like a smile on the face of a dime/cause everyone you know try to go at it in time." - (shaken in by PGH Hype)

There's no real losers in this industry. Just people who quit before their time.- Chaka Zulu (manager for Ludacris), XXL, April 2003 (shaken in by Butteroll Stephens)

"Man, in 20 years niggas ain't gonna remember that shit. They'll be like, 'Fuck that nigga B.I.G.' Twenty years, dog? I'm trying to get out this shit in a bang, I'm tryin to be out the game by the year 2000, dog. I want to be finished making my millions.. I just got in the game to help myself, to better myself, to better my daughter, better my parents. Just to make sure my shit is straight." - Notorious B.I.G., "The Lost Interview" XXL, April 2003

"I remember we used to rock chains then. Now you can't even really get me to bling no jewelry like that. Because everybody got it - it looks so fuckin wack and stupid. They make it look nasty. So I keep it basic now. Just put a ring on my finger, man. Simple shit." - Raekwon, XXL, April 2003

"They say I talk a lil fast, but if you listen a lil faster I ain't got to slow down for you to catch up." -50 Cent, P.I.M.P (shaken in by H1pH0pD1am0nD)

"Ya wrist bling bling, my shit bling BLOW!"- 50 Cent, "Poor Lil Rich" (shaken in by CaliChic)

"I believe that every black person has a responsibility. When you do good, everyone is looking at you.. every black person. So you're the same person as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. I'm not just representing the hood and Roc-A-Fella Records, I'm representing for the whole culture. A lot of people look at me like they looked at Martin Luther King" - Jay-Z, Playboy April 2003

"I think the way one looks is really important. Before I got my deal, I used to get jobs that I was totally unqualifed for, based off the fact that I looked good, like I was dressed cute and stylish and that was it.. I was like 15-years old, bartending. Fuck not qualified, try not legal! Then I was a buyer for a store, and I was a salesperson. I was doing all kind of shit like that but because I was cute, they were like, 'Ok, you look like you can do this.' And of course I could.

So it's a proven fact, a well dressed woman is a successful woman.. Of course it's a double-edged sword. I can't tell you how many meetings I've had where the man I'm talking shop with just wanted to fuck.. but it works more often than not." - Kelis, Oneworld, Apr/May 2003

"It's hard to believe that Harry met Sally back in 1989. Things were so different then. Bush was president, the economy was tanking, we were about to go to war with Iraq."- Billy Crystal (shaken in by jirzygurl)

"In the time of war, the first casualty is truth."- Anonymous (shaken in by jirzygurl)

"When the rocket out the holster, them hollows be like ego-waffles, they poppin' out the toaster." - (shaken in by young old skool)

"I know if I ever ran into someone's house during a robbery, I'm not leaving no one in that house to be a witness. I'll kill everybody in that motherf**ker before I go."- 50 Cent, Rolling Stone, Jan 15, 2003 via The Source (shaken in by Thug_Miss)

"I can't even identify with you when you tell me you've got to get up and go to work in the morning. I hope I never have to."- 50 Cent, DaveyD.com via The Source

"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!"- "The Guerrilla Gangsta" G.W.Bush, The first Presidential debate (shaken in by jus rebel)

"Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin."- Frank Moore Colby, Imaginary Obligations

"Hitler wrote, ' All effective propaganda, must be confined to a few bare necessities, and then expressed in a few stereotyped formulas.' These formulas must be constantly repeated, for 'only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.'" All his statements are made without qualification.. the propagandist should adopt 'a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with; they (opponents) should be attacked, shouted down, or if they become too much of a nuisance, liquidated.

The morally squeamish intellectual may be shocked by this kind of thing. But the masses are always convinced that 'right is on the side of the aggressor.'"- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World