Phife Quotes

#1. I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.

Phife Dawg

#2. I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation

Phife Dawg

#3. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

#4. Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#6. Everything we do - our whole life, Greenie - revolves around the Maze. Every lovin' second of every lovin' day we spend in honor of the Maze, tryin' to solve somethin' that's not shown us it has a bloody solution,

James Dashner

#7. When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

Phife Dawg

#8. The seeds of who I am now had been planted. "Fools aren't born," I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. "They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity."

Marilyn Manson

#9. Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

Phife Dawg

#10. I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Robert Lloyd

#11. London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

Phife Dawg

#12. I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

Adriana Lima

#13. All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Gianni Agnelli

#14. It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's brilliance gone.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will?

Phife Dawg

#16. Question: Why is that MC's be wack
And major labels wanna sign that crap?
A-yo ... funk that!

Phife Dawg

#17. Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am,
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

Phife Dawg

#18. I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

Phife Dawg

#19. A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

Phife Dawg

#20. I instruct you to be the obeyer,
A rhythm recipe that you'll savor,
Doesn't matter if you're minor or major,
Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player,
As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

Phife Dawg

#21. In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.

Cat Stevens

#22. There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

Fulton J. Sheen

#23. Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.

Melissa Jensen

#24. Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

Phife Dawg

#25. I'm all about the fans.

Phife Dawg

#26. I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP ... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans.

Phife Dawg

#27. Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue.
It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me,
But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

Phife Dawg

#28. Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop,
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop,
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top,
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop

Phife Dawg

#29. It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

A.R. Rahman

#30. Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Phife Dawg

#31. I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.

Phife Dawg

#32. All the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort. [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]

Daniel Coyle

#33. The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.

Tia Mowry