The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

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.

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

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.

Too many people are counting on you to cross that finish line. Please don't disappoint yourself and them.

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.