Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.

We're kept so busy focusing on things that are extremely mundane while the people that possess the real power are deciding what our reality's going to be.

If you're following your heart, you're moving in the right direction.

That's one of the most bold smacks in the face in this country. It's a way to say, "Look, we just don't even care about you," the price of healthcare in this country.

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

Through the years our business has been killing

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

Where music leads, I follow.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

I'm really interested in people's decisions.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.