My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

this is her body this is her blood

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.