“In the hood, poverty isn’t just an economic condition. It’s a war we’re born into.”
"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
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity