I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.
most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people. . . until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.
That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.
Shared leadership. . . is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around. . . depending on what the music demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.