Nas Quotes

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

I would kill my own son for liberty and to secede from the Union.

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don't be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

Laws can't control the lawless.

One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at