Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Death is a slave's freedom.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

The future is in good hands.

You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.