Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

I fear nothing for God is with me!

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.