Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

You can't start the next chapter of your life

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.