You're only as good as your last book.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

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.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.