Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

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.

Without challenge we become too comfortable with life.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

Back then, all the networks were still making a movie a week, virtually. So I did five of them that year. So it was just a nonstop... '92 was a great, nonstop ride in Vancouver.

I really believe in less is more. It's more sophisticated to look look and fresh and make a statement in one place.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.