Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Joblessness gives you liberty

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.