Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

Scotland - The Highlands - Thirteenth Century "Have ye e'er seen such a lovely set o' bosoms?

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

If you want to do something dangerous... Don't tell your girlfriend!

Writing is its own reward.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Do something whatever you do, it will be better than sitting and hoping things will improve.