My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

Find the small goals within your large goals, and work on them.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

Carbs are devastating for the brain.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.