Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

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

For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul. And now I had an eternity to live with it.

To reflect God’s image is a lifestyle

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.