There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing