Life is a beautiful struggle.

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.

Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.

The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau.

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.