. . . reality, the name we give to the common experience.
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.
If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a conversation of homophobia in hip hop wouldn't be. Because I would have the money and the revenue coming in. It's not about homophobia or who's going to push back. It's all about who's supporting you and where there's money from.
Greatest god below the sky.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.