Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

All you really have... is now.

God does give us the history of his people.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

We want it to be a post- election coverage of the president-elect.

Don't just live a life; build one.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.