I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

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.

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.