Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

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

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

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

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.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence