I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Love does not only need a taste, but it also needs a present.

Every work is challenging if you want to do it perfectly !!

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.