You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

It takes all of this technology to come up here and understand the simplicity of things. From here, it’s really difficult to understand borders, wars, and hate.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.