"It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places."

“Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.”

“Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.”

“Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.”

“I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.”

“It was either therapy or die.”

“And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

“When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.”

Source : "Amiri Baraka: Poet Laureate" by Saul Williams, www.thefader.com. November 2004.

“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”