Jay-Z Quotes

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• I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.
• We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history
• I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you…
• I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look…
• I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always…
• 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…
• The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your…
• I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
• I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I…
• As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle…
• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music…
• It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean?…
• One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't…
• They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my…
• It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a…
• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out,…
• My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me.…
• My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
• Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than…
• Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people…

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