We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Most important is be a good man.

When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.