It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

Everyone is born with the nimit (karmic evidentiary instruments). I too, am born with nimit. With this body, so and so number of tasks [work] will be done by him, such is the nimit!

Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal.

Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.