Kool Quotes & Sayings

When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it. — Omar Sy

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker ... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow. — Kurtis Blow

I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down. — Kool Moe Dee

Tough like a Ukulele. — Kool Keith

Art is a creed, not a craft. — Tom Wolfe

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets. — Kathryn Schulz

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck. — Jeff Foxworthy

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault. — Kool Moe Dee

We got hookers with heaters that'll stray pop and put more shells in your top than Adidas. — Kool G Rap

Maybe I could help with some of the wedding stuff, too."

Sidney laughed, then saw Vaughn frown. " Wait - you're being serious?"

He shrugged. "Sure, why not?"

"No offense, but you don't exactly exude a 'wedding planning' vibe."

"And thank God for that. But I think I can manage a few tasks. How hard could it be to pick a photographer? Or a band? Just ask them if they plan to play 'Y.M.C.A.' or that annoying Kool and the Gang song. If they say no, they're hired. — Julie James

Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. — Kool Moe Dee

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it. — Kool Moe Dee

It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes. — Denis Leary

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man. — Kool Moe Dee

Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads,
I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt.
LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt?
I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain,
Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name.
I was to blame, my life never been the same.
A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me.
My classmate died, my other friend named Cory
Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window,
Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil. — Kool Keith

You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go.
We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window:
"Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown,
Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down."
I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes,
But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues. — Kool G Rap

Crash took a long drag off his cigarette and gave me a smug little smile. He always looked smug. His hair was dyed Kool-Aid green. Maybe that's what he was looking smug about today, despite the fact that it clashed with his olive drab army duster. Or maybe he knew my ass stung with every step I took- either because he was an empath who hot "feelings" about what everyone was experiencing, or because he'd taken it up the ass from Jacob himself. Crash's smirk widened and I looked away. One day I'd probably slap him. And then I'd regret it, because he was probably into stuff like that. — Jordan Castillo Price

Love 'em. Kool & the Gang, love 'em. What more can I say? — John Lydon

I unloaded several archive boxes from my trunk and began filling one with books. They compiled a cross-section of the counter-culture bestseller list of the sixties and seventies: Stranger in a Strange Land, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Walden, On the Road, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Catch 22. I — Dan Duffy

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king. — Kool Moe Dee

I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new. — Kool Keith

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper. — Kool Keith

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant. — Kool Keith

You have girls that sing about guys ain't paying their bills and men are this and men are that and I write about women who want to go out for free, they don't want to pay for the dinner, they try to get over, they wanna leave. — Kool Keith

I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid — Brandon Sanderson

I think a lot of the high technology is distracting. — Kool Keith

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view. — Kool Keith

You need a bad operation.
Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame. — Kool Keith

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists. — Kool Keith

Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony. — Shannon L. Alder

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide. — Annie E. Clark

We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with the fence, bent over like Marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima. It was the greatest show of common effort we could remember in our neighborhood, all those lawyers, doctors, and mortgage bankers locked arm in arm in the trench, with our mothers bringing out orange Kool-Aid, and for a moment our century was noble again. — Jeffrey Eugenides

For a beverage, you asked for some "cherry-assed Kool Aid." Okay, now you're just adding "assed" in places where it doesn't even make sense. Regardless, we will fulfill your request for Cherry Kool-Aid. However, Halle Berry will not be pouring it from her mouth into yours.
For dessert, you asked for your mother's homemade peach cobbler. It is highly unorthodox for someone other than the prison kitchen staff to prepare a final meal. Also, you killed her about eight years ago, remember? So you'll have to settle for Hostess. — Colin Nissan

Maybe you haven't noticed, but everyone shares the same brain around here. It's like a mass cult. They've all drunk the Kool-Aid. — Siobhan Vivian

Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up. — Kool Moe Dee

I call you once ... you never dialed back.
Twice ... you never dialed back.
Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius.

Saturday night, my phone rings ...
Saturday night, I won't answer.
Saturday night, my phone rings again ...
Saturday night, I don't answer. — Kool Keith

Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space. — Kool Keith

Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck. — Kool Keith

Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend — Kool G Rap

Yo, you don't think you're going under?
I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number. — Kool G Rap

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce — Kool Keith

I'm not Jesus Christ but I can turn water into Kool-Aid. — George Watsky

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan . — Kool Moe Dee

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes. — Kool Moe Dee

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. — Kool Moe Dee

Your mouth smells like my jock strap. — Kool Moe Dee

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy. — William Zabka

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. — Kool Moe Dee

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy. — Mike Birbiglia

I keep my chin tucked in, eyes on the ground, the same stance I have when I pass by the guys from my neighborhood who laugh and call me Urkel because I wear a big backpack and don't hang out on the street all night smoking Kool XLs--and by the way, we need a new black nerd archetype; also, when are these wannabe gangstas watching reruns of Family Matters? — Una LaMarche

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue. — Kool Moe Dee

I'm givin' more flat lines to niggas than loose-leaf. — Kool G Rap

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party. — Kool Moe Dee

You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place. — Kool Moe Dee

When the hippie era ended and the hangover began, as idealism gives way to disillusionment, the hair of the marchers and street-dancers kept getting longer, and soon it began to tangle. Free love deteriorated into loveless promiscuity, our great electric Kool-Aid acid test churned out an entire generation of burnt-out old relics, and the hair, once a symbol of freedom, became symbolic of the new face of prison, a lawlessness which taken to its logical extreme would imprison all of society as our growing criminal element took to the streets. — Tommy Walker

As I turned around to receive my injection,
I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection.'
If I see another girl and I get an erection ...
I'm walking in the other direction! — Kool Moe Dee

Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat. — Kool Moe Dee

Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox — David Baldacci

Eric Leeds said at one point Prince wanted the band to all be vegan. Alan told his brother that to survive being in Prince's band you had to at least pretend to drink the Kool-Aid, so, Eric said, you had guys being vegan when Prince was around and eating whatever they wanted when he wasn't around. "He attached some spiritual component to it but looked at it as another way for him to exercise control," Eric said. "If you're gonna work for me then you have to conform to my ideal. — Toure

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost.
"Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets? — Rick Riordan

Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king. — Kool Moe Dee

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop. — Kool Keith

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what? — Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Nice work," he said.
I grinned.
"You look like hell, though," he noted.
"I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid," I replied. — Brandon Sanderson

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it. — Richard Brautigan

Kirby didn't notice him immediately as she stood shyly beside Castle, looking out of place. Grip, and a few of the niggas were posted in VIP when the captain of their crew arrived fashionably late. Now that business was taken care of, they were blowing cash and sipping codeine like it was Kool-Aid. A colorful selection of women was sprinkled throughout their section, each one hoping to claim a made man. Same shit. Different state. — Pebbles Starr

I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that. — Kool Keith

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon.
One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!' — Q-Tip

Dakota got up so fast, he spilled Kool-Aid from his flask. "We were plenty good last night when we whipped your podex, Larry!" "Enough, Dakota," Reyna said. "Let's leave Larry's podex out of this. As quest leader, Frank has the right to choose his companions. He has chosen Percy Jackson and Hazel Levesque. — Rick Riordan

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future. — Kool Keith

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it. — Kool Moe Dee

Think about it, if you was there standing looking at me.
What would you do, if I hit your face with dog doo-doo? — Kool Keith

I know these two weeks have been God walking right into my life like he has flesh and Kool-Aid coloured hair. The gospel according to Bodee Lennox. His safety. His protection. And love. — Courtney C. Stevens

Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive. — Kool Moe Dee

Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff. — Kool Keith

Business money reattaches worldwide
Deep inside stops the diamond rocks
In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world
Rap moves on to the year three thousand — Kool Keith

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee. — Kool Moe Dee

My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me ... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me. — Action Bronson

Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid — Dean Cavanagh

I know the game, it's old and lame:
You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
If it ain't tax, I don't pay that. — Kool Moe Dee

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. — Afrika Bambaataa

I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through. — Kool Keith

You turned red all over, Finn," Aiden said helpfully. "So did Teagan. As red as Kool-Aid."
The back of Finn's neck went from pink lemonade to Blastin' Berry Cherry.
"Yeah," Aiden said. "Like that."
"I don't want to talk about it," Finn said. — Kersten Hamilton

Were they making the Kool-Aid in breathable form these days? — Sloane Crosley

A huge smile spread across Jen's face."Ahh that was a good one." She turned back to the crowed and yelled again."Rewind. We're going to party like it's 2009, New Year's Eve. If you're curious as to how awesome a party that was, please see me, Jacque or Sally. Sally's version will be much more accurate, and also free of any important inappropriate details." Before she could say anything else, a large hand wrapped around the microphone and pulled it from Jen's grasp. Decebel handed it to Jacque as he growled at his mate and pulled her away.All the while Jen was telling him exactly how much she didn't appreciate him getting all up in her kool aide. She finished by telling him that, once again, she was going to shove her foot where an 'Exit Only' sign should be.

Jen to the audience and Decebel in Beyond The Veil — Quinn Loftis

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own. — Avery Flynn

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them ... blah blah blah. — Kool Moe Dee

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition. — Kool Moe Dee

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff. — Kool Keith

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality. — John Ridley

I wanted to drink the Kool-Aid he was serving, but by then my taste buds had matured and I preferred the vinegary truth. — Kathy Hatfield

I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope,
Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP.
Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap. — Kool Keith

It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no. — Marisha Pessl

LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L. — Kool Moe Dee

I write the most sexiest records out. — Kool Keith

Learn your past, find your path. — Kool Moe Dee

Bullets ain't racial, kid ... they only hate you. — Kool G Rap

I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at all. I'm anti, because I don't like anyone being discriminated against. But, I do think that I very much needed a sunny place for me to feel happier, and living in LA was almost like that sort of cleansing experience like I was being baptized in a river. — Ladyhawke