Born on September 7th

"I don't talk in ifs."

"I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi."

"I do not like violence."

"All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion."

"Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam."

"If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam."

"I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it."

"Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it."

"We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us."

"By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware."

"Living in your genome is the history of our species."

"I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me."

"If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss."

"I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me."

"What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours."

"Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool."

"I bet there ain't anybody in South Africa wearing a button saying 'Free Compton' or 'California.' They don't give a damn about us, so why should we give a damn about them?"

"Cussing ain't for everybody."

"I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS."

"The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality."

"I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste."

"Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto."

"We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say."

"Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on."

"I put Compton on the map."

"I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote."

"If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too."

"The black police in Compton are worse than the white police."

"Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city."

"People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb."