The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

This time, I wanted to enjoy the passion that burned between us until we were both about to combust.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.