All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.
- Eminem
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
- Eminem
Unless you want to f*** me, why do you care what I look like?
- Eminem
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
- Eminem
A lot of truth is said in jest.
- Eminem
I do promote violence and I don't give a f***.
- Eminem
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
- Eminem
Holy Gigantical Completely Natural Bulges!!!
- Eminem
When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to, but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is ten times sicker than I am.
- Eminem
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- Eminem
I felt like it's my time to shine, I have to rip this. At that time, I felt that it was a life or death situation.
- Eminem
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
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
- Eminem
Success is my only motherf***ing option, failure's not
- Eminem
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
- Eminem
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
- Eminem
It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could never say that my shit is whack because they know my shit is tight!
- Eminem
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
- Eminem
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
- Eminem
Sometimes you just gotta let shit go and say to 'hell with it' and move on
- Eminem
These times are so hard, and their getting even harder.
- Eminem
Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.
- Eminem
Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. But just know Slim Shady is hip
- 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
I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'.
- Eminem
They say music can alter moves and talk to you. Well can it load a gun up for you and cock it too? WIll if it can and the next time you assaulta dude, just tell the judge it was my fault...and I'll get sued!
- Eminem
We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.
- Eminem
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
- Eminem
It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes.
- Eminem
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who took up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I m not a baby sitter.
- Eminem
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
- Eminem
I took a lot of them, I took a bunch of pain killers.
- Eminem
At this point, I'm like Come up with something new. I hate the same old questions. But it seems like white magazines such as Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my whiteness more than Black magazines
- Eminem
Look. I was pissed off! That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one point in time, I really wanted to do that shit. For real.
- Eminem
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
- Eminem
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
- Eminem
