Quotes By Eminem
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
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Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
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I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
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Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
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You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
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You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
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The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
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The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
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