i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

The only guide to man is his conscience.