Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

The way it feels to me, ' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to believe me.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.