Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to prove that there's no God, ... That's their bias to start with.

I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.