It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Truth had me up against the ropes And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

Never let the story beat you home.

The thrall in person may be free in soul

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.