I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

Daily life.The sacred time of man on earth.

If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

What does it mean, being a woman?

Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.