I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

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.

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

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.

If you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

I already feel like the Girl Who Lived around here.

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

Being a mother is magical.

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!

Senegal needs a renaissance.