Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

I know what I want in life: I want the life itself!

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

You are not my high school crush, idiot.” “Great. I can die happy, then.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.