Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.