If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority….

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander..

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away.

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….

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open….

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance w….

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries..

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate.

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

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. R….

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became….

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the ….

There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, pe….

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determin….

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn y….

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are ….

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness..

only through new words might new worlds be called into order.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine..

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair..

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves..