We're just as screwed up as you.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours.

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.