If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

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.

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.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

Tonight I've set my body on fireI've burned my fingers On your chest and absAnd as the flame Continued consuming me I blew my air kisses All over youUntil I've heard The explosion.

The living are more demanding

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

To infinity…and beyond!

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

I don't want to be a mind rapist!

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.