So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

Your anger is a gift.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.