Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.”That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Thank God for the journey.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.