I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

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.

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.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

Good communicators always articulate messages in a manner they want others to understand and not how they understand it

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.