100 Quotes by Killer Mike

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

The fact that I'm in a group that inspires others artists is just heaven to me.

The best advice that I've gotten from Nas is honestly to just be me and to keep staying true to myself. It took me a long time to figure out how to pop, but then, when you get famous, people are kind of like, 'Oh, well, we don't want as much of you.'

Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today - except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.

Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has taken that social justice platform into politics.

If we could figure out ways for kids to exit college without having the burden of debt, what we have really figured out is how to create a more fertile breeding ground for people who can think innovatively and progress us as a species.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.