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.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

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

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.