Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.