Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one.

Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.

I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.