Top 50 DMX Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t believe everything you hear, don’t believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see.”

— DMX

2. “Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.”

— DMX

3. “I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.”

— DMX

4. “No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.”

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5. “I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.”

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6. “I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.”

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7. “Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.”

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8. “I can forgive, I just can’t forget.”

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9. “Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street.”

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10. “You don’t come to terms with something before you do it. It’s only after you’ve done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn’t the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.”

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11. “In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.”

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12. “The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts – because they have to be tough to protect it.”

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13. “The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.”

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14. “Nothing we can’t handle, break it up and dismantle.”

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15. “Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I’m familiar with both sides of the fence.”

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16. “I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.”

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17. “Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one’ll let you die.”

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18. “The places that ive been, the things that i have seen – what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.”

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19. “I was always a winner, but just didn’t know it.”

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20. “With the Lord behind us they’re ain’t nothing we can’t do.”

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21. “If your heart was as big as your mouth you’d be real.”

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22. “My birth was a blessing. Sent to live and die on Earth; it’s a blessing. We each have a star; all you have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone sees it, you won’t be blinded.”

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23. “Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.”

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24. “Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.”

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25. “I’m not an industry artist – I’m an artist in the industry.”

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26. “I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.”

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27. “You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I’m here to teach.”

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28. “Just because someone raps, doesn’t mean that’s all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.”

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29. “I can reach people the average person can’t reach because I’m as grounded as I am.”

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30. “Do the right thing cause after the tears come the cheers.”

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31. “You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.”

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32. “You can’t call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.”

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33. “I’m a personal type of person. I’ll speak when I have something to say, not ’cause someone just wants to know something.”

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34. “I don’t like anything about Drake.”

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35. “My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He’s always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn’t always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.”

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36. “It’s a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I’ma just do what I do.”

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37. “I been the same dude my whole life.”

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38. “You can’t speak for the people unless you’re able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?”

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39. “I’ve got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, ‘Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!’”

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40. “An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.”

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41. “I don’t walk around big headed. I’m not a superstar.”

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42. “I need to say what’s in my heart, and you call it a style.”

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43. “The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease.”

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44. “There’s a difference between violence and senseless violence.”

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45. “I’ll repent one day, just not right now.”

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46. “The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it’s undeniable.”

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47. “I’m glad that young black people are successful with the music. I’m not a hater.”

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48. “Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.”

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49. “I paint the walls with his blood.”

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50. “I’m still the same. That’s why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.”

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