Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
I hear music as narrative.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless. . . actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
Love is just the key to everything.
The Church in England is the Church of England.
I remember being on Hawaii when I sailed to Hawaii. It felt unsettling to be walking around there because I was thinking, "This place could just sink at any second. " In actuality, it totally can. But it really felt like, I am this teeny, tiny speck out in the middle of all that water, I feel so unprotected right now. It almost felt creepier than being on a boat, which is an even smaller speck out in the middle of nowhere. But I felt like I had some control over that situation.