Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on 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.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

Identify the environment where we live and work is important to make us better.

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

Be bold before you get stuck not being bold.

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.