The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

True love can’t exist without trust.

Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.