My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

God has saved me in ways i know and in ways i never knew or have discovered.

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.