Once your life has caused the creation of a desire, your workis done, and natural forces and laws will take over.

We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I did not lose myself all at once.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living