What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.