J. COLE

"Keep grindin’ boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it’s dark out, the sun is shining somewhere."

"And the strongest drug of them all – Love."

"They say time is money but really, it’s not. If we ever go broke, time is all we got."

"Time will tell who is on my side."

"I keep my head high, I got my wings to carry me. I don’t know freedom, I want my dreams to rescue me."

"The music becomes more pure and soulful when it’s true, and it has to be true."

"Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything."

"Nothing lasts forever, but at least we’ve got these memories."

"If you ain’t aim too high, then you aim too low!"

"Every time you go to sleep you look like you in Heaven."

"It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success."

"I walk along this long harbor of life and sit on the piers, reflect on my pain and sh*t on my fears."

"Feels so right to let things go"

"Anything’s possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles."

"I’d rather be happy being myself than sad trying to please everyone else."

"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."

"My life is too crazy, no actor could play me."

"Either you play the game or you let the game play you."

"The same ones you love will bring you pain."

"Catch me, I’ve fallen in love for the first time."

"Damn, cold world. I never thought I’d see the day that you’re my old girl."

"You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you."

"In a game full of liars it turns out that I’m the truth. Some say that rap’s alive. It turns out that I’m the proof."

"I know that vengeance is the Lord’s and it’s not for me."

"There’s a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. So, think about that before you judge someone."

"I know Heaven is a mind state, I’ve been a couple times"

"The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album."

"My life accelerated, but had to wait my turn. But then I redecorated, that means my tables turn."

"If they don’t know your dreams, they can’t shoot them down."

"Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out."

"I don’t like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair."

"School is a good place – it ain’t for everybody, but I think it’s for most people."

"The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content."

"I no longer bury demons, I be a vessel for the truth until I’m barely breathing, I’m singing"

"I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do."

"I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things."

"I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing."

"Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far."

"I swear I walk with God, but the devil keeps following."

"If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it."

"Never give up until you’ve given out all your very best. It’s better to fail trying, than wondering what could have happened if you tried."

"Sometimes our dreams come true, sometimes our fears do too."

"Anything I do, I want to do it well."

"You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain."

"My intuition is telling me there’ll be better days"

"No such thing as a life that’s better than yours, no such thing–no such thing."