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Eminem
American
Musician
About the author
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Man
#Deep
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Welfare
#Mom
#Schools
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem,
American
Musician
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Life
#Will
#Drama
#Negativity
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Dumb
#Ugly
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Poor
#Glamour
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Friends
#Trying
#Mind
#Fact
#Rap
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Key
#Music
#Racism
#Rap
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
Eminem,
American
Musician
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#People
#Reason
#Mind
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Life
#Nothing
#Truth
#Tomorrow
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Feeling
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Life
#Saying
#Home
#Pretty
#Fantasy
#Living
#School
#Rebellion
#Rap
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Responsibility
#Baby
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Father
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Wonder
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Love
#Car
#Music
#Rap
These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
Eminem,
American
Musician
Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#People
#Past
#Being
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Freedom
#First
#Speech
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Want
#Love
#People
#Will
#Hate
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Life
#Music
#Drama
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Talk
#People
#Killing
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Women
#Hate
My only scheme was to be a rapper.
Eminem,
American
Musician
I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Want
#Mistakes
#Artist
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Truth
#Jest
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Dream
I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
Eminem,
American
Musician
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
Eminem,
American
Musician
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Fame
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem,
American
Musician
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#End
#Sense
#Beginning
#Humor
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem,
American
Musician
#Famous