We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

We have to consciously monitor and maximize our time effectively and efficiently

It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids