We commute to computers Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors We survivalists, turned to consumers.

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.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

"Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic."

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.