Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

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 way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.