They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

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.

Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don't know that. They always smile

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

Being A Christian doesn't mean I won't fall... It means Jesus will catch me, when I do.

...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

I am one of the haunted.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.