It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

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.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.