But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

You could achieve nothing with wondered mind! you need to stop it!

I'm just a young guy with big dreams who is working hard to make it on top while many people are waiting for my downfall, they don't support but hate and talk negativity.

She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

The spirit he has shown has been second to none. (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge)