This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

A pure crystal stream sprang laughing in the midst of desolation......

To oppose something is to maintain it.

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

We've had some big waves [of immigration]. And tremendously positive things have happened. Incredible things have happened.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.