Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

I don't want to die while I still have beautiful reasons to die for.

We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

You don’t get a trophy after halftime. We don’t look at the scoreboard until the end of the game.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.