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.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.