We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone

You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean—slowly, silently, and endlessly.

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.

It's a no-win situation with politics it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.