I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

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

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

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