You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

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

If you feel something, you should do it.

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

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.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.