And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

When you move toward that which is most fulfilling and life-enhancing, healing follows regardless of what your health is like in that moment.

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.