So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

It is possible to have what you wish for.

Culture becomes visible when we travel between “ cultures ” and when we look back in time to other “ cultures ” than our own.

He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. He had lost all he possessed of worldly property

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail