I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

this is her body this is her blood

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.