I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.
I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.
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.
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.
If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.