My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

My life is my message.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.