387 Quotes by Jay-Z

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants.

In the end, you can’t censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

I’m not saying I’m God. But as far as lyrics, I’m God MC.

If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn’t mean suddenly there is this gap. You don’t get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I’m here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.

Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don’t bother trying to get it. The problem isn’t in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don’t even know how to listen to the music.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

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