If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.