10 Powerful Quotes from Eminem

Happy Birthday, Eminem! In honor of a highly-regarded American rapper,Marshall Bruce Mathers III, AKA Eminem,  turns 44 years old today.   Here are 10 powerful quotes that  exemplify the legacy Eminem can reach students who are going through adversity. 

1. “You better lose yourself in the music, the moment. You own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo”
2. “Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up. And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.”?
   
3. “Yeah, it’s been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one. Now some of you might still be in that place. If you’re trying to get out, just follow me, I’ll get you there.”
4. “We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.” 
5. “I don’t do ‘black music,’ I don’t do ‘white music’…I make fight music, for high school kids.”
6. “The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.”
7. “There’s no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high. No plane that i can’t learn how to fly.”
8. ” If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down
9. “The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.”
10. “Don’t let them tell you ain’t beautiful.

My personal favorite song is Lose Yourself, and having students enter the classroom with the end beat would be a great way to set the mood in a classroom.