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

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

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Life is precious.

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

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.