If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

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.

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

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

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.