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

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.

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

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

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!

The clock sweats out each minuteof what meat is left to us.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent