“I'm really going out of my way to do it the right way. I'm taking very few cheats – very few cheat codes that I'm using.”
"You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you."
- J. Cole
Awareness
"I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening."
- J. Cole
Awareness
"To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is."
- J. Cole
Awareness
"But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening."
- J. Cole
Awareness
"I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do."
- J. Cole
Belief
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity