Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Maktub" (It is written.)

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

Women's football does have its knockers.

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

I always want to be able to be in a room where I know I'm going to be entertained and challenged.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Eyes open, then," I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.