1. “Better think while it’s still legal.”
2. “You don’t have to believe everything you think.”
3. “Don’t let anybody infiltrate your dream.”
4. “In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’”
5. “Art is the absence of fear.”
6. “I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it – in science – sympathetic vibrations.”
7. “Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.”
8. “Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.”
9. “I’m only in competition with my last level.”
10. “I’m a Pisces, so I’m a very closed-book kind of person.”
11. “I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.”
12. “The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.”
13. “We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.”
14. “If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.”
15. “I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.”
16. “If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, ‘I’m gonna do this,’ and you should stick to it.”
17. “The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.”
18. “I grew up listening to old soul.”
19. “Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.”
20. “Be you. Make sure you’re saying something when you’re saying something. It’s important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.”
21. “I try to be honest and I keep moving.”
22. “When you’re performing, you’re creating a moment.”
23. “I’d rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.”
24. “I was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.”
25. “I really can’t say what inspires me the most, because I’m inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.”
26. “I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.”
27. “I’m in training to become a midwife. I’m almost there and before I know it I’ll be able to open my own practice, if that’s what I desire.”
28. “So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.”
29. “A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it’s such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.”
30. “He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.”
31. “I don’t read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.”
32. “People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.”
33. “The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.”
34. “They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don’t have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.”
35. “My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.”
36. “I’m a recovering undercover over-lover.”
37. “I just keep going. When the water’s too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.”
38. “I don’t want to think too much about how I’m carving and what I’m carving – you are just carving away the excess clay and there’s a piece underneath there. And it’s kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that’s what the commonality is: It’s getting out of the way so that the art can speak.”
39. “I’m pretty mutable as a human being, period – if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.”
40. “I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.”
41. “I don’t think it matters what school you go to, but I think it’s important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.”
42. “Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.”
43. “My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don’t have nothing to do with your new friend.”
44. “Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.”
45. “But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.”
46. “What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn’t imagine a music world without his voice.”
47. “I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She’s someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That’s what I do, too, so I think that’s a great comparison.”
48. “We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.”
49. “I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen.”
50. “I really enjoy being the child’s ‘welcoming committee’ and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.”
51. “Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.”
52. “I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It’s fun to see what they’ll say it is.”
53. “No one chooses to raise children alone.”
54. “I believed in myself, and I’ve always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.”
55. “People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.”
56. “During childbirth and hospice I’ll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I’ve made up, or I’ll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.”
57. “When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.”
58. “What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I’ve worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.”
59. “I’m only in competition with my last level. It don’t have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.”
60. “Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.”
