I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

Vulnerability is power.

I hear the weed is really strong in California.

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.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.