We Are Less Lonely When

[to Become A Poet] The Most Important Thing Is To Pay Attention. The Next Would Probably Be To Read; It's So Important To Pay Attention. It Keeps You From Being Bored, And I Might Add It Keeps You From Being Boorish.

Hip-hop Is A Cultural Expression - It's Embracing.

I Used To Dream Militant Dreams Of Taking Over America To Show These Whitefolks How It Should Be Done I Used To Dream Radical Dreams Of Blowing Everyone Away With My Perceptive Powers Of Correct Analysis I Even Used To Think That I'd Be The One To Stop The Riot And Negotiate The Peace Then I Awoke & Dug That If I Dreamed Natural Dreams Of Being A Natural Woman Doing What A Woman Does When She's Natural I Would Have A Revolution.

We Just Didn't Put Any Pressure On Each Other, And I Think That Everybody Needs Somebody, And I Didn't Do It To Try To Do It; It's What We [with Nina Simone] Were To Each Other.

But Nonviolence Was Never For The Oppressor; It Was For The Oppressed.