I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

Sacred gifts: life, nature, good health, strength, joy, prosperity of soul, children, family, friends….!

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing

This bond is forfeit And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.