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“April 22, that was the day that I was acquitted from a crime and started my life over. I was facing eight years. April 22, that's back in 1992. A year later, I'm a platinum producer. April 22, serendipitously, is the day that my film premieres on 35 millimeter at the Vista Theater in Hollywood. When my character gets out of jail, he marks on the calendar the day he gets out, April 22. Before that, I was known as Prince Rakeem. After that, acquitting and my mother telling me, you got a second chance, I was like, exit Prince Rakeem, enter the RZA.”

“You never seen a chicken eat a mouse? Chickens are straight up dinosaurs. There's some great videos of chickens around a cat and a cat's playing with a mouse and the chicken just runs up on the cat and steals the mouse from them and tears it apart. They were all chasing each other around the chicken coop where this one chicken had the mouse in its mouth, and they were all trying to steal it from her mouth.”

“Reopening of the Straits will be slow because it may have been mined. Also, the logistics of getting all the ships that are trapped in out and the ones that are out in will be slow. Repair, there's been a lot of damage to infrastructure. We don't know how bad.”

“Every time I do it, I almost don't do it. Every time I do it, I'm almost like, don't do this. I don't wanna do this. Fuck this. And then I get in, like, oh, we're doing it. We're doing it. The minute mark is the tough part. Once you pass the minute, it's pretty easy to get to three minutes. You just relax.”

“And most of it happened because of the Sackler family. This one family that convinced people that taking these incredibly potent opioids. They wanted to figure out a way where they could sell opioids to everyone. And the way they did it was, like, giving people pain management tools, giving people medication that you could be on forever. They tried to pretend that it wasn't addictive, and they lied about that, and they got who knows how many thousands and thousands and thousands of people ruin their lives because of it.”

“So cobalt is a critical mineral that's used in cell phone batteries and many electronics. He snuck in cameras and got some footage of these people doing what, you know, you think that this stuff is mined in some sort of industrial process. You've got women who are have babies on their backs, and all this cobalt that they're knocking out of the ground is completely toxic. If you follow it all the way down to the very bottom of the food chain, you've got slave labor.”

“Two days, I just start feeling like crack crack crack crack crack. I feel antsy. I feel irritated. Just I don't think think I'm thinking clear. I don't feel relaxed. What drives me nuts is, like, how many people out there, that's their whole life. There's no exercise in their life like my God, you're doing yourself such a disservice.”

“There's a company in China that makes Rolexes exact to a real Rolex, but it's not a real Rolex. They buy a Rolex and then recreate exactly to the same type of steel that they used. But they take it and they recreate everything with the exact same materials, but it's like $500 as opposed to 11,000. You bring it to a watch person and it'll take them hours to figure out whether or not this is an actual Rolex or not.”

“In his Easter address, Pope Leo said that peace cannot be achieved through weapons or threats. At a time when political leaders in the United States and in Israel have employed religious language to justify the war in Iran, the Pope said that the Christian story is one of non-violence. The Pope also called on each individual to take action and not be desensitized by the suffering and death of others.”

“At the weekend box office, the Super Mario Galaxy movie took the top spot with an estimated $130 million in ticket sales. That's the biggest opening of the year for a Hollywood film. The Illumination and Nintendo co-production capitalized on kids' spring break vacations, and despite mixed reviews, audiences were happy.”

“I was, maybe 11, and it was a, like, a dope fiend that was dating my aunt, and he was at the table and shit. And he was, like, nodding, but he was just he was kinda in his in a chamber, bro. And he says, says something about, like, you know, I don't care, man. You gotta get knowledge, man. I started reading it since that day, bro.”

“They have a hard time selling real diamonds that are made in a laboratory. Is that a real diamond? It's a real diamond. Molecularly, it's a real diamond. It's just not created by the earth over time. It's not like a fake Ferrari. It's a fucking diamond. Like, they can take that carbon and compress it and make an artificial diamond, and lady is like, no. I don't want it.”

“All this cobalt that they're knocking out of the ground is completely toxic. Some of them just have like a bandana over their mouth that they're using to protect themselves from but look how deep that is with human beings that are just pulling cobalt. They live on dirt floors, they live at the lowest level of poverty imaginable. And this is what we need to power our phones, which is so crazy. If you think about all these people that are virtue signaling about how wonderful and ethical and moral they are, they're doing it on a phone that is literally powered by slave labor.”

“I was, maybe 11, and there was a, like, a dope fiend that was dating my aunt. And he was at the table and shit, and he was, like, nodding, but he was just he was kinda in his in a chamber, bro. And he says, says something about, like, you know, I don't care, man. You gotta get knowledge, man. You gotta get knowledge, man. I started reading it since that day, bro.”

“The Sackler family. This one family that convinced people that taking these incredibly potent opioids... they wanted to figure out a way where they could sell opioids to everyone. They got who knows how many thousands and thousands and thousands of people ruined their lives because of it. And like I said, seventy thousand die every year just in America just from opioids.”

“He comes up in the middle of my q and a with Dave about my film, and he starts talking about the beat. And he says, RZA is a Indian giver. He said I had it on my podcast for almost two years. And then one day, it said flag, license, whatever they do. The people from the Minions, they had got those five tracks as well, and they chose it. I said, oh, that shoe was another beat. He said, nah, son. That was the one.”

“I was in China. We was doing the film there, and every morning that I would go to work, almost every day, it almost happened. Like, that almost car accident. Every day, bro. And even when my brother Russell Crowe, we'll get to set in the morning, he'll say, yo, Bobby, like, Javier, bro, we made it. So when I came home, I just stopped driving, bro. I haven't drove since then.”

“I try to stay as close as possible to, like, centering my body. Like, if I don't work out, like, just a couple days in a row, I start feeling weird. Two days, I just start feeling like crack crack crack crack crack. I feel antsy. I feel irritated. I don't think I'm thinking clear. I don't feel relaxed.”

“The people gotta realize that they are not poor. Because if that is valuable and you're standing on it, then you're standing on value. And that's why they keep them poor because they can't organize them. The people gotta realize sometime where you stand where you stand on your land.”

“He says, in Shaolin, when you get up in the morning, you have to exercise, run up a mountain, run back down a mountain, do chores, and all that before you eat. And he said, if you don't do that, you don't eat. And so I was like, well, that sounds like something from the Bible, where it says that, man should work to the sweat of his brow.”

“He comes up in the middle of my q and a with Dave about my film, and he starts talking about the beat. And he says, Rizza is a Indian giver. He said I had it on my podcast for almost two years, and then one day, it said flag, license, whatever they do. The people from the Minions, they had got those five tracks as well, and they chose it. And they put it and they paid us a lot of money. He said, nah, son. That was the one. Oh, no. That was the one.”

“Gasoline prices have jumped sharply since the US and Israel launched their war against Iran. That's expected to push the annual inflation rate back above 3% when the price index for March is released on Friday. Core inflation, which strips out volatile energy and food prices, is also expected to be higher in March than it was in February.”

“How could you say you told the bed Fuck you. Yeah. That's what you have to say. You have to get up almost angry. Fuck you. No. You're not gonna call me in there with your octopus tentacles and suck me to your depths.”

“He says, if you don't do that, you don't eat. And so I was like, well, that sounds like something from the Bible, where it says that, man should work to the sweat of his brow. You know what I mean? And I took that philosophy. So I know I don't normally eat in the morning.”

“He's at a veteran home. He's sitting there, and he's having breakfast, and he has this can. He digs the spoon in there, and it's like, fucking there's nothing in it. Like, it's not even it's like one spoon of chocolate in it. And he gets angry. He bangs it. Boom. Who the fuck left one spoon of chocolate in the can? But then it took an old man that was settled to tell him, one spoon of chocolate change a whole glass of milk.”

“President Trump also issued a profane threat to Iran on Easter Sunday morning. He said starting Tuesday, the US will bomb power plants and bridges if Iran doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz. The president has issued a series of contradictory statements on the Strait, saying that it would open naturally when the war ends, or that European countries should open the Strait themselves.”