Not every artist is a role model.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.

No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

First things first, I'm da realest.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

Socialism is not panacea and capitalism is not entirely evil.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

Love doesn’t always have to be spoken out loud.

All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.