I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.