Coolio quotes:

Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

Elesa slept with Mark and Mark slept with Tina. Tina slept with Javier, the first time he seen her. Javier slept with Loopy, and Loopy slept with Rob. Rob slept with Lisa who slept with Steve...

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

If you've got beef, then eat a porkchop

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

Put a condom in their hand and hope it don't bust.

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.