49 Best DMX Quotes to Fuel Your Fight and Passion

1. “I can forgive, I just can’t forget.” – DMX

2. “A lot of people, we want a miracle, we want a huge blessing. People will forget that a miracle will only happen on the platform of a tragedy.” – DMX

3. “If your heart was as big as your mouth you’d be real.” – DMX

4. “Nothing we can’t handle, break it up and dismantle.” – DMX

5. “You can’t speak for the people unless you’re able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?” – DMX

6. “I’m a personal type of person. I’ll speak when I have something to say, not ’cause someone just wants to know something.” – DMX

7. “I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.” – DMX

8. “I paint the walls with his blood.” – DMX

9. “Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.” – DMX

10. “No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.” – DMX

11. “When you happy ,you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.” – DMX

12. “You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.” – DMX

13. “I don’t walk around big headed. I’m not a superstar.” – DMX

14. “Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So, I’m familiar with both sides of the fence.” – DMX

15. “I’m not an industry artist – I’m an artist in the industry.” – DMX

16. “If you’re influencing people, I think you should consider life is too precious to have them chasing the wrong things. Don’t give them jewelry, give them jewels.” – DMX

17. “I’m glad that young black people are successful with the music. I’m not a hater.” – DMX

18. “It’s the tough things that we go through, hard things we go through, that get us to that point where we’re better and stronger than we’ve ever been.” – DMX

19. “Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.” – DMX

20. “In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.” – DMX

21. “There’s a difference between violence and senseless violence.” – DMX

22. “Do the right thing cause after the tears come the cheers.” – DMX

23. “The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it’s undeniable.” – DMX

24. “I been the same dude my whole life.” – DMX

25. “I’m not an industry artist – I’m an artist in the industry.” – DMX

26. “You don’t come to terms with something before you do it. It’s only after you’ve done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn’t the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.” – DMX

27. “Don’t believe everything you hear, don’t believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see” – DMX

28. “I was always a winner, but just didn’t know it.” – DMX

29. “The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts – because they have to be tough to protect it.” – DMX

30. “I need to say what’s in my heart, and you call it a style” – DMX

31. “I can reach people the average person can’t reach because I’m as grounded as I am.” – DMX

32. “Do dirt, get dirt. So, I treat people with the same respect that I want. I don’t walk around big headed. I’m not a superstar. I’m a man like you’re a man. We’re all people. It’s a mutual respect. I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.” – DMX

33. “You have to have humility. You have to be able to humble yourself and know what you got, know where it came from.” – DMX

34. “You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I’m here to teach.” – DMX

35. “Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one’ll let you die.” – DMX

36. “Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.” – DMX

37. “Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.” – DMX

38. “I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.” – DMX

39. “One thing that people don’t really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It’s never really fair.” – DMX

40. “I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.” – DMX

41. “I don’t have to be working on an album to record a song.” – DMX

42. “With the Lord behind us they’re ain’t nothing we can’t do.” – DMX

43. “I don’t recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.” – DMX

44. “I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.” – DMX

45. “Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street.” – DMX

46. “Just because someone raps, doesn’t mean that’s all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.” – DMX

47. “I’ve got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, ‘Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!’” – DMX

48. “It’s a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I’ma just do what I do.” – DMX

49. “I’m glad that young black people are successful with the music. I’m not a hater.” – DMX

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