We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

In walking, we acquire more of less.

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?