Eminem Quotes
"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."
- Eminem
(Related: Mom, Schools, Welfare)
"I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker."
- Eminem
"If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something."
- Eminem
(Related: Life, Drama, Negativity, Songs, Will)
"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"
- Eminem
(Related: Dumb, Ugly)
"I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything."
- Eminem
(Related: Glamour, Poor)
"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
(Related: Fact, Friends, Mind, Rap, Trying)
"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."
- Eminem
(Related: Music, Key, Racism, Rap)
"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."
- Eminem
"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway."
- Eminem
(Related: People, Mind, Reason)
"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."
- Eminem
(Related: Life, Truth, Nothing, 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Home, Fantasy, Living, Pretty, Rap, Rebellion, Saying, School)
"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
(Related: Baby, Kids, Responsibility)
"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."
- Eminem
(Related: 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Car, Love, Music, Rap)
"These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder."
- Eminem
"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
(Related: People, Being, Past)
"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."
- Eminem
(Related: First, Freedom, 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
(Related: Love, People, Hate, Want, Will)
"I need drama in my life to keep making music."
- Eminem
(Related: Life, Music, Drama)
"I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it."
- Eminem
(Related: People, Killing, Talk)
"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."
- Eminem
(Related: Women, Hate)
"My only scheme was to be a rapper."
- Eminem
"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
(Related: Artist, Mistakes, Want)
"A lot of truth is said in jest."
- Eminem
(Related: Truth, Jest)
"I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream."
- Eminem
(Related: Dream)
"I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record."
- Eminem
"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am."
- Eminem
"Fame hit me like a ton of bricks."
- Eminem
(Related: Fame)
"Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned."
- Eminem
"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."
- Eminem
(Related: Humor, Beginning, End, Sense)
"Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion."
- Eminem
(Related: Famous)