RZA

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When you are young "money" is not the same.
- RZA
Collection: Young
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Have you ever been with a girl, you had an argument and you wanted to make up with her? As long as you say nothing, you can make up with her. If you say something, it's going to be another argument, you are going to get no pussy and you go to bed mad. But if you don't say nothing, it gets closer and closer, y'all make love and it's all expressed through love.
- RZA
Collection: Girl
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Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.
- RZA
Collection: School
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Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
- RZA
Collection: Self
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When I started emceein', you had 500 maybe 1000 rappers in the whole world. Now there's 1.000.000, nahmean?
- RZA
Collection: Rapper
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Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.
- RZA
Collection: Thinking
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That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.
- RZA
Collection: Heart
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I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.
- RZA
Collection: Taken
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I've been the underdog in my life since I was a kid.
- RZA
Collection: Kids
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One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.
- RZA
Collection: Baby
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Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
- RZA
Collection: Wise
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The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.
- RZA
Collection: Ocean
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You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.
- RZA
Collection: Life
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One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?
- RZA
Collection: Baby
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I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.
- RZA
Collection: Brother
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Sometimes brothers are in war with each other, but at the end love conquers all.
- RZA
Collection: Brother
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An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.
- RZA
Collection: Home
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I think one thing most of faiths have in common is they all realize that everything manifests from one [god]. That's whether you're dealing with science, religion, Bible, whatever. They all realize it all came from one, and then from one, you got many.
- RZA
Collection: Thinking
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It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.
- RZA
Collection: Children
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I invested in the album. Look, if I never did anything again in music, it wouldn’t affect my life materially. I live a very satisfying life. Not because I’ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that’s the American dream: to be at peace at home.
- RZA
Collection: Beautiful
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I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.
- RZA
Collection: Art
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When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.
- RZA
Collection: Moving
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I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample.
- RZA
Collection: Depth
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There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.
- RZA
Collection: Lawyer
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Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.
- RZA
Collection: Gay
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What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.
- RZA
Collection: America
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My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.
- RZA
Collection: Children
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What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real fast. So as the industry plummets, what happens is that there is no deals being made.
- RZA
Collection: Real
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I feel when I say I can do something and carry this opportunity to make movies, it's because I took the time to study it. A boxer can't just jump in the ring. You've got to practice and practice and practice.
- RZA
Collection: Opportunity
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Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.
- RZA
Collection: Moving
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I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.
- RZA
Collection: Heart
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I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.
- RZA
Collection: Thinking
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If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation!
- RZA
Collection: Rapper
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Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.
- RZA
Collection: Albums
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If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting.
- RZA
Collection: Fighting
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I can't say unfortunately but sadly - I've got babies in more than one household.
- RZA
Collection: Baby
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I make a lot of money in my life, 50.000 dollars are nothing.
- RZA
Collection: Dollars
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I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.
- RZA
Collection: Kids
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There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.
- RZA
Collection: Names
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Wayne is definitely one of the top five MCs to ever come out of the South.
- RZA
Collection: Wayne
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Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
- RZA
Collection: Rap