My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

Your perspective changes relative to the frame through which you see things.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

I'm confident you haven't seen the best yet. And I will only get better through time and through tougher competition.

There's no way out of here.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.