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

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

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.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.