Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

Records should come from feelings. You shouldn't try to do nothing; it should just come out how you feel.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.