Some days you're depressed, some days you're happy, some days you're broken hearted. People need music for therapy, to heal them or speak for them when they can't describe how they're feeling.

Don't be flirting with your gift, you better marry it

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

I love myself, I no longer need Cupid...

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.

I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.

To see yourself and others in the darkness, be the light of courage and enlighten them.

My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year.

Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Be happy and be satisfied. Find fulfillment in everything you do.

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.