My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.

One must always forgive another's passion.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

I say it's a girls' world.