Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

If you want to go to a school with lower requirements, it doesn't diminish the education.

I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.