Common Rap Quotes & Sayings

Time is real, we can't rewind it ...
Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
Time did. — Common

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they. — Bill Bailey

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore. — Stephen Fry

I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up. — SonReal

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. — Ryan Phillippe

I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack,
And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap. — Common

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything. — Patricia Schartle

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

I love black thighs, you sisters better realize
That real hair and real eyes get real guys.
So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind ... — Common

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. — Bell Hooks

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. — Joseph Addison

If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
Lyrically, Talib Kweli
Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since. — Jay-Z

the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past. — Hugh Young

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. — Lillian Hellman

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken. — Rachel Hartman

I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win ... — Common

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene. — James Franco

Even through the unseen, I know that God watches,
From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us. — Common

I met this girl when I was ten years old,
And what I loved most she had so much soul.
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me. — Common

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos. — Common

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button.
Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction,
How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one? — Common

We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. — Barack Obama

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches. — Michael Eric Dyson

I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl
Turnin' this woman's womb into a tomb
But she and I agree, a seed we don't need
You would've been much more than a mouth to feed
But someone I would've fed this information I read
To someone my life for you I would've had to leave
Instead I led you to death. — Common

It was dope to the point where I felt like Common almost admired me as much as I admired him. He took us to the hotel, and then he was going through his phone, rapping his raps to me. I was like, Is Common rapping to me right now, trying to get my feedback? — Dreezy

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics — Common

There was a rap on the common room door and every Ravenclaw froze. From the other side, Harry heard the soft, musical voice that issued from the eagle door knocker: "Where do Vanished objects go?"
"I dunno, do I? Shut it!" snarled an uncouth voice that Harry knew was that of the Carrow brother, Amycus. "Alecto? Alecto? Are you there? Have you got him? Open the door! — J.K. Rowling

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy. — George Clooney

But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places. — Jay-Z

I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail.
In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
My eyes see the glory, and well,
The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!" — Common