You wanna look pretty though, in my video

Here I go, deep type flow, Jacques Cousteau could never get this low.

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

Wu-Tang is for the children.

'cause haters wanna shoot, everything that shine So I'm prepared, to lock and load my rhymes

We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?

If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money Aooow...

Ooh baby, I like it raw!

Girls, when you walk down the street, just stay nasty. Please stay nasty for me because that's how I freak out. So stay nasty and be nasty and have a beautiful time.

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other...

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.

Surround yourself with a loving community.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that