Cocaine

Coke is pure kick. It lifts you straight up, a mechanical lift that starts leaving you as soon as you feel it. —William S. Burroughs

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money. —Robin Williams

Cocaine is a stimulant used as a recreational drug. The production, distribution, and sale of cocaine-related products is restricted (and illegal in most contexts) in most countries.

Quotes

In alphabetical order by author or source.

• I'm on a plane, with cocaine.
  And yes, I'm all lit up again!
  • Buckcherry, "Lit Up", Buckcherry (1999).

• Think about the great thinkers of our time and those times before and in antiquity. Think about Aristotle, Plato and Socrates and Maimonides and Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Rodin and George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Edison and Oprah Winfrey and those liberation thinkers like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth and Marcus Garvey and Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela. Think about it my brothers and sisters, Cesar Chavez and George Washington Carver and Booker T Washington, Adam Clayton Powell ectera. Think about them! They were [thinkers]. Pitful our generation and our people today. Here it is 2008, and we're worse off now than we've ever been because our young people do not have the ability to — Think about it! How pitiful we are, here they are on drugs, on heroin, on cocaine, alcoholics. Here they are at the disposal of these kingpins and ectera, because they can't. Here they are making gangs families because they can't.
  • Archbishop LeRoy Bailey, Sr., in a sermon entitled "An Abundant Overflowing Thought" (24 Feburary 2008)

• Coke is pure kick. It lifts you straight up, a mechanical lift that starts leaving you as soon as you feel it.
  • William S. Burroughs, in Junkie (1953)

• How does taking cocaine make you feel? It makes you feel like taking more cocaine!
  • George Carlin

• If you want to get down, get down on the ground, cocaine.
  • Eric Clapton, "Cocaine," Slow Hand (1977)

• All laboratory animals can become compulsive cocaine users. The same might be said of humans.
  • Sidney Cohen: "Reinforcement and rapid delivery systems: Understanding adverse consequences of cocaine". Cocaine use in America: Epidemiologic and clinical perspectives. 1985. p. 152. 

• She held me spellbound in the night
  

Dancing shadows and firelight

Crazy laughter in another room

And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon ...

• The Eagles, "Witchy Woman"

• Drivin' that train high on cocaine.
  Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed.
  • The Grateful Dead, "Casey Jones", Workingman's Dead (1970).

• I'm on the border of Bolivia, working for pennies
  Treated like a slave, the coca fields have to be ready
  The spirit of my people is starving, broken, and sweaty
  Dreaming about revolution looking at my machete
  But the workload is too heavy to rise up in arms
  And if I ran away, I know they'd probably murder my moms
  So I pray to Jesu Cristo when I go to the mission
  Process the cocaine paste, and play my position
  • Immortal Technique, "Peruvian Cocaine", Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003).

• Cocaine is a hell of a drug ...
  • Rick James

• Tabby began by dumping a trashbag full of stuff from my office out on the rug: beer cans, cigarette butts, cocaine in gram bottles and cocaine in plastic Baggies, coke spoons caked with snot and blood, Valium, Xanax, bottles of Robitussin cough syrup and NyQuil cold medicine, even bottles of mouthwash. A year or so before, observing the rapidity with which bottles of Listerine were disappearing from the bathroom. Tabby asked me if I drank the stuff. I responded with self-righteous hauteur that I most certainly did not. Nor did I. I drank the Scope instead. It was tastier, had that hint of mint.
  • Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Simon & Schuster. 2000. pp. 90–91. ISBN 0-7434-5596-7.  p. 91

• Need I say the C.I.A. be Criminals In Action
  Cocaine crack unpacking, high surveillance tracking
  Prominant blacks and whites giving orders for mass slaughters
  but I want all my daughters to be like Maxine Waters
  When they flooded the streets with crack cocaine, I was like Noah
  now they lower cause the whole cold war is over
  Communism fell to the dollars you were grabbing
  All the assault and battering in the name of intelligence gathering?
  • KRS-One, "C.I.A. (Criminals In Action)", Lyricist Lounge, Volume One (1998).

• Needlework the way, never you betray
  life of death becoming clearer
  Pain monopoly, ritual misery
  chop your breakfast on a mirror
  Taste me you will see
  more is all you need
  you're dedicated to
  how I'm killing you
  • Metallica, "Master of Puppets".

• Ayo for Yayo, walk around with yayo, all in my nasal, I must have been crazed yo.
  • Andre Nickatina, "Ayo for Yayo".

• All your dreams are made
  when you're chained to the mirror and a razor blade.
  • Oasis, "Morning Glory", (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995).

• Some they may go for cocaine
  I'm sure that if, I took even one sniff
  It would bore me, terrifically, too
  • Cole Porter "I Get a Kick Out of You".

• Cocaine invariably turns most men into the worst versions of their eighteen-year-old selves.
  • Irvine Welsh, Porno

• Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
  • Robin Williams