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I hear the weed is really strong in California ...

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

I don't trust the man
that i am becoming
he seems too much
and seldom is

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

She kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus ... I rhyme.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions ... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

My love is my soul's imagination ...
how do I love you ... imagine.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

If you feel something, you should do it.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

this is her body this is her blood

She stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

Only through new words might new worlds be called into order

Intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

Some rather seek up high
Than dig and grind that inner truth

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

The forecast is
we kiss goodbye and never hello
all kisses are then parting kisses

The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

Vulnerability is power.