I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

At the end of our lives, every moment is so priceless.

Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly.

I was against the war with Iraq. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Centre. It wasn't Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.