Coolio famous quotes

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
-- Coolio

#Book #Reading #School

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?
-- Coolio

#Hurt #Philosophy #Blind

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
-- Coolio

#Fun #Life Is Too Short #Moon

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
-- Coolio

#Nice #Ghetto #Men

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.
-- Coolio

#Pimp #Sorrow #Hardship

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ***** by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.
-- Coolio

#Food #People #Cooking

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.
-- Coolio

#Toes

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.
-- Coolio

#Reality #Mind #Waste

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."
-- Coolio

#Nice #Food #Eggs

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.
-- Coolio

#Sexy #Food #Eggs

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.
-- Coolio

#Growing Up #Food #Cooking

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.
-- Coolio

#Food #Cooking #Meat

I perform for soldiers because they are important.
-- Coolio

#Soldier #Important #Politics

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
-- Coolio

#Nice #Guy #Done

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
-- Coolio

#Son #My Son #Beats

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
-- Coolio

#Gun #Marijuana #Smoking

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.
-- Coolio

#Eagles #Names #Musical

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.
-- Coolio

#House #Waiting #Musical

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.
-- Coolio

#Honesty #Normal #Raised

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.
-- Coolio

#Revenge #Pistols #Retribution

Elesa slept with Mark and Mark slept with Tina. Tina slept with Javier, the first time he seen her. Javier slept with Loopy, and Loopy slept with Rob. Rob slept with Lisa who slept with Steve...
-- Coolio

#Sex #Firsts #Mark

Put a condom in their hand and hope it don't bust.
-- Coolio

#Sex #Hands #Condom

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.
-- Coolio

#Taste #Nipples #Momma

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.
-- Coolio

#Growing Up #Kids #Being Real

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.
-- Coolio

#Holiday #Infidelity #Purses

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.
-- Coolio

#Girl #Flower #Nurse

We got to push to give, and one life to live.
-- Coolio

#Inspirational #Giving #One Life To Live

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.
-- Coolio

#Inspirational #Fool #Winner

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.
-- Coolio

#Inspirational #Ambition #Pity

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
-- Coolio

#Responsibility #Thinking #Soldier

If you've got beef, then eat a porkchop
-- Coolio

#Sex #Rap #Dirty

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
-- Coolio

#Reality

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?
-- Coolio

#Reality #Needs #Teach

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.
-- Coolio

#Rap #Hip Hop #World

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die
-- Coolio

#Cities #Hip Hop #Slides

Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.
-- Coolio

#Ducks #Dixie #Bunnies

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.
-- Coolio

#Hero #Causes #Forget

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?
-- Coolio

#Education #College #Graduates

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.
-- Coolio

#Education #Running #Long