You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

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.

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.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.

All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.