I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand

There is no spirituality without ethics

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

If you have to cry, it's okay. I'll cry with you.

Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.