Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain.

I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'

I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are you?" He answered: "You!"

O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God.

The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

I am the Truth (Ana al-Ḥaqq).

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.