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.

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

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written