Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.