intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

Survival is your strength not your shame.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.