Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

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.

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.