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.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

God is not calling us to work for Him. He is calling us to walk with Him.

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.