I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.