If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

There is no greater companion like books.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.