Coolio Quotes

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.

If you've got beef, then eat a porkchop

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I never let any of my sons beat me at video games.

Elesa slept with Mark and Mark slept with Tina. Tina slept with Javier, the first time he seen her. Javier slept with Loopy, and Loopy slept with Rob. Rob slept with Lisa who slept with Steve.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Put a condom in their hand and hope it don't bust.

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.