People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it."

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

May the light of love illuminate your path.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

We are all called to fulfill God's five purposes for our lives: to worship, to fellowship, to grow like Christ, to serve, and to be on mission with God in the world.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]