I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

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.

A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park.

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.