If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

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 man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive.'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those.

Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!

It is virtues that make a man not prosperity.

I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

If you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner.

Rejection reveals your character.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.