I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

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.

Sometimes, things didn't always happen as we wanted them to.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.