Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.