Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

War is not a jobs program.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

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

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

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