One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

I think win the election big, if she can win it, I'd like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.

I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.

We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.