You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

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

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

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.