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

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

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.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

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

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

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