I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?