My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

No decision is, in itself, a decision.