The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

Love is a hidden treasure. You never know you have it until someone special reveals it.

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.