All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

Change your perception about things and the things you perceive changes.

If the love is true, it’s going to be with you

A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls”.

We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.