You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.

May God deliver us from every sinful nature of the soulful flesh.

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.