Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

Ամբողջ մարմնի կենդանութիւնը հոգին է, իսկ մարմինն ու հոգին կառավարողը՝ միտքն է:The whole essence of the body is the spirit, while the governor of both spirit and body is the mind.

The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Anything’s possible, almost.

I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.