Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves

You are beautiful, not only because of your beauty, because of who you are.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

Deal with him, Hemingway!

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.