387 Quotes by Jay-Z

And all you other cats throwin' shots at Jigga, | You only get half a bar: fuck y'all niggaz.

I wanted to kill Auto-Tune like Kurt Cobain killed the hair bands.

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. 'Nigga' becomes 'porch monkey' becomes 'coon' and so on if that's what's in a person's heart. They key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

I'm like a dog. I never speak but I understand.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

Crackheads were different. They’d smoke in hallways, on playgrounds, on subway station suitcases. They got no respect. They were former neighbors, ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’, but once they started smoking, they were simply crackheads, the lowest on the food chain in the jungle, worse than prostitutes and almost as bad as snitches.

This communist talk is so confusing