I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.

My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.