the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

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.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

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.

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

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.