I am the shadow of the flame.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

The war never leaves.

For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

And the truth will set you free...

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

There's no limit to God's love.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.