Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!

The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'.