Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.
I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist. ' 'Ad Busters. '
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business. . . then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.