You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

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.

May God bless and guide us on path of light in Jesus Name.

I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.

Monumental is not a matter of size.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

An angry man is full of poison.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.