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

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.

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

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.

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.

We can't change what is coming. Something is always coming.

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

To harm another is to harm oneself

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.