“My influences, going back through the history of rap, talk about Doug ...” — R-Truth Quote

“My influences, going back through the history of rap, talk about Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe D, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy.”

“I leave my career totally to the creative staff and Vince McMahon. Whatever they give me to do, I'll go in headfirst and I'll just perfect it and make it happen. I'm ready for whatever they have to throw at me.”

“I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.”

“My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.”

“Do not try doing the things that we do one TV in WWE. We're the entertainers, we're the professionals.”

“Me, I like to go against the grain.”

“As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.”

“This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.”

“If we're going to continue to move forward as a nation, we can't allow concern about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth, or history.”

“You can't supervise your own history.”

“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”

“I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.”