The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

people say life is

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

Who and where you look is an indicator of who and what you know.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.