When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.

Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase.

Overall, always strive to be genuine — about who you are, what you offer, and why you do what you do.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.