You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

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

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

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.

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.