I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

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.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.