I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

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

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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