I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

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.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Death is a slave's freedom.