Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Like your booty don't stink.

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.