Be not entangled in this world of days and nights Thou hast another time and space as well.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

All of your body is in your mind, but not all of your mind is in your body.

Having played in Boston will help me a ton moving to New York.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

We are either kings or pawns of men

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.