I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.