Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.