I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.

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.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.

Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)!

A roof of harmony can only be built on top of pillars of tolerance.

Worrying can only come as an enemy of the solution to your problem.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.