Suge Knight Quotations

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.

The best revenge in the world is success.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

My thing was to be the man who makes his little 30 or 40 million a year and still get a cheeseburger and fries and don't worry about an autograph.

There is a difference between me and most, which is that I am fresh off the block. I don't look for no special privileges. I'm a man who paid my does.

Anytime you have somebody doing positive stuff and just doing their time and minding their own business, people will sit up there and lie.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

I cook my own breakfast on my hot plate.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Coming from prison, you're more appreciative. Somebody gives you a bottle of water, you're like, "Thank you." Because that water means something. It might not be too good. It might not even be drinkable, but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement,

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!

I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy.

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.