I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

Family. The greatest loyalty after God.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.