What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

I wouldn't go back to ashes or dustWords gave me life and in them I will surrenderFrom words to words..

It was different than all the rest because I say it was. I felt it was.

It's funny how you wanna leave them but still you give yourself every reason not to...

To be somebody you must last.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.