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.

What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

You're only as good as your last book.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

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

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.