Old words are reborn with new faces.
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.
Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.
The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.
You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique.
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
By the time you get to year six, there's never a break. . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.