Top 80 Lupe Fiasco Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.”

— Lupe Fiasco

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2. “The point of Islam is to promote peace.”

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3. “Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.”

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4. “The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.”

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5. “My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don’t fear any man. I never have.”

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6. “A match made in heaven set the fires in hell...”

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7. “Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?”

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8. “How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.”

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9. “I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.”

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10. “Most things that are politically right are morally wrong.”

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11. “I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence. Fear is such a weak emotion, that’s why I despise it. We’re scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth. So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you.”

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12. “Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.”

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13. “The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We’re fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn’t even get to America.”

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14. “That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.”

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15. “I do this for the sake of myself. It’s a selfish process. I don’t really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.”

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16. “If you’re informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.”

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17. “When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.”

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19. “My approach is I put God first; I say “God willing” all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can’t really change anything, I’m just going to satire it.”

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20. “When you look out into the world and you turn on the news and it’s just so dark, it’s still there. But it’s the battle, it’s the struggle with that, and at the same time to recognize that happiness and love and all those things exist as well.”

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21. “When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you’re doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don’t. They only look at the outer shell. They don’t really get into it.”

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22. “You ain’t got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.”

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23. “I can’t play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.”

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24. “What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain.”

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25. “Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it.”

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26. “I don’t like to degrade women, but I like pornography.”

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27. “Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.”

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28. “With ‘Hip-Hop Saved My Life,’ I attempted to make ‘Kick, Push,’ but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it – if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.”

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29. “I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.”

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30. “The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?”

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31. “I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence.”

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32. “I always say that you define what success is to yourself.”

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33. “Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.”

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34. “If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that’s success. You define that as success, then that’s success. Success is not a general thing. It’s a personal thing. It’s a personal attribute.”

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35. “My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.”

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36. “The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.”

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37. “I’m a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.”

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38. “I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don’t make any sense whatsoever.”

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39. “I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.”

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40. “This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.”

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41. “True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we’re fighting – actively fighting something else. But if you’re going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.”

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42. “People don’t understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.”

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43. “Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That’s what the music business does to you. That’s what capitalism does to you.”

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44. “Everybody has their opinion on what’s ‘real,’ and what’s they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they’re 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.”

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45. “I think there’s a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he’s a black man. Honestly, I’m rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.”

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46. “360 deals are the new things of the industry. It’s not about selling records; it’s about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.”

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47. “You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.”

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48. “I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.”

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49. “Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesnt seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.”

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50. “We weren’t raised Muslim – we were born Muslim. I didn’t go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.”

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