Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Unless you are a part of someone's life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.