Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

Time is long but life is short.

Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

I see the light in your smile.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.