As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Cuz phony faggots I froze, it's a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

When you see the mega-stars doing really, really well, it gives you hope that you could probably do that too.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

Survival is a growth strategy.

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.