Woman are complex creatures.

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.

Every one’s footprint is a landmark in the world history

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

A good nail does not fear being hammered.

When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.