My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

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.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.

I don't think I remember my first memory.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.