Not all speed is movement.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.