Eminem Quotes

Debut Album
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Childhood
I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

Childhood
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.

Childhood
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.

People
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Fame
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.

Racism
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'.

Racism
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'.

Competitors
I don't think I take the beef as seriously as they do, because I don't consider them artists. They look at me as an artist. I think they get more uptight about it. I can look at them and laugh. They can't do anything to me. What can they do to me? They have no credibility, no respect, no talent, they have nothing. All they can do is diss me vocally, they can't diss me lyrically. There's nothing they can do to me as far as the music goes. I don't take it as seriously as they do and I think that frustrates them. I think it's funny.

Father
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

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